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ghxstyesterday at 10:18 PM1 replyview on HN

I've used wireguard for a while, not sure why I never considered doing BGP over it, might make for a fun weekend project.


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tucnakyesterday at 10:26 PM

BGP is vastly superior to any L2 make-believe trash you can imagine, and amazingly, it often has better hardware offloading support for forwarding and firewalls. For example, 100G switches (L3+) like MikroTik's CRS504 do not support IPv6 in hardware for VXLAN-encapsulated flows, but everything just works if you choose to go the BGP route.

L2 is a total waste of time.

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