My experience tells me Martins direction is a good one. You would be surprised to learn how much time already went into whats out there that people trust now. Besides - it has very limited marketing appeal. The IXs number is small. The big ones already have something working well. I wouldn't implement something new. When I chose, I went for something a big network ran for years. As a result it was reliable and easy to maintain. Had few and simple problems. Simply ran 2 and had people get a session with both. No one ever lost routes when I took one down to upgrade - or when we had a hardware failure. Thank You Bob Evans CTO
On Mon, 4 May 2015, Sebastian Spies wrote:
sorry, for the double post. dmarc fuckup...
Hey there,
considering the state of this discussion, BIRD seems to be the only scalable solution to be used as a route server at IXPs. I have built a large code base around BGP for the hoofprints project [1] and BRITE [2] and would enjoy building another state-of-the-art open-source route-server implementation for IXPs. Would you be so kind to send me your feedback on this idea? Do you think, it makes sense to pursue such a project or is it not relevant enough for you?
How about (instead of another implementation) helping one of the existing projects? Writing another implementation is easy. Keeping it up to date, testing it and supporting it over multiple years is what I would worry about.
I would *strongly* suggest to solve that issue first before starting on another implementation.
- Martin