Andy, Believe me when I say: I would never have the idea to think about attempting to try to test my ability to generate configurations for this "2 route servers/ 2 different programs that run them" solution without the IXP Manager :-) I am familiar with the work INEX has been doing with IXP Manager and have for some time attempted to find time from regular SOX operation to implement it in our IX. This migration gives me the excellent opportunity and arguments to finally allocate time, resources and manpower for installation and implementation of IXP Manager as the route server configuration generator at SOX. Regards G.Slavic -----Original Message----- From: Andy Davidson [mailto:andy@nosignal.org] Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2015 21:34 To: Goran Slavić Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Euro-IX quagga stable download and implementation On 25 Apr 2015, at 15:16, Goran Slavić <gslavic@sox.rs> wrote:
Considering what I have learned in your posts (and on other places that I have informed myself) I will definitely suggest to SOX management to go the way similar to what LINX did (1 Bird + 1 Quagga as route servers) for the simple reason that 2 different solution provides more security in context of "new program update->new bugs" problems and incidents and prevents other potential problems.
Goran - glad to have helped. One last piece of advice which might be useful - to help to guarantee consistency of performance between the two route-servers, you should consider a configuration generator so that your route-server configs are in sync. The best way to implement this at your exchange is to use IXP Manager, maintained by the awesome folks at the Irish exchange point, INEX. https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager IXP Manager will get you lots of other features as well as good route-server hygiene. There's also a historic perl-script that does this on my personal github. Both of these solutions allow you to filter route-server participants based on IRR data, which has proved to be a life-saver at all of the exchanges I help to operate. Having my horrible historic thing is maybe better than no thing at all, but I deliberately won't link to it as you should really use IXP Manager. :-) Andy=