# netlab 2.0.0: Hosts, Bridges, and SRv6

DevFeed: [netlab 2.0.0: Hosts, Bridges, and SRv6](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/netlab-2-0-0-hosts-bridges-and-srv6-11184.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2025/05/netlab-2-0-0/>)

Published: 2025-05-12T07:05:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Release notes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/release-notes.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [SRv6](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/srv6.md>), [BGP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bgp.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/evpn.md>), [Firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firewall.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [Routing (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/routing.md>), [Vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vagrant.md>)

Tags: [2-0-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2-0-0.md>), [bgp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bgp.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [evpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evpn.md>), [firewall](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firewall.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [new-features](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/new-features.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [release-notes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release-notes.md>), [routing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/routing.md>), [srv6](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/srv6.md>), [vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vagrant.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces netlab 2.0.0 and summarizes new node roles, bridge support, a rudimentary firewall plugin, SRv6 BGP L3VPN support, a command-line defaults interface, routing and EVPN changes, graph styling, validation improvements, and platform or version changes.

## Source excerpt

netlab release 2.0.0 is out. I spent the whole week fixing bugs and running integration tests, so I'm too brain-dead to go into the details. These are the major features we added (more about them in a few days; the details are in the release notes): Well-defined node roles (host, router, bridge) are now available on multiple platforms The firewall.zonebased plugin allows you to configure a rudimentary firewall SRv6: BGP L3VPN support is now available for FRRouting, so you can go out and kick its (free) tires. bridge nodes can be used as simple bridges or to implement multi-access links netlab defaults command provides sysctl-like CLI interface to user/system defaults. Other changes include: Read more ...