Setup Route Reflector

In addition to the access points, we use a route reflector to build our control plane. It is possible to set up the system without a route reflector, if you are interested in such a setup, just drop us a message. A route reflector can be any kind of machine where frr can be installed. It just needs a L3 connection to the access points. We use an Ubuntu server host.

FRR

1. Install frr on the route reflector.
2. Copy sample-configs/route-reflector/daemons and sample-configs/route-reflector/frr.conf to the directory /etc/frr/. Check the permissions and ownership afterward with ls -l /etc/frr. They should look like this:

-rw-r-----   1 frr  frr daemons
-rw-r-----   1 frr  frr  frr.conf

3. Replace placeholder values in sample configs with actual values
4. Restart frr

If you already configured an access point, you can verify the peering by running:

vtysh
show bgp neighbors

It should say that the connection with the access point is established.