Personally I would like to see more work on all three opensource implementations, i.e. BIRD, OpenBGPd and Quagga.
http://opensourcerouting.org/ to the rescue? -- Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Ph.D. Converged Networks Business Unit CPqD - Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications Tel. (+55 19) 3705 4479 / Cel. (+55 19) 8193-7087 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
On 22.08.2012 11:22, John Souter wrote:
On 22/08/12 06:19, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
...Any feedback appreciated.
I can't speak too highly of BIRD. Our use case is probably not completely typical, but our multilateral peering route servers have been hugely improved by switching to BIRD. Our two primary route servers, one for each LINX London LAN, use BIRD; the two secondaries use an enhanced version of Quagga.
The BIRD route server scales better, gives much higher performance, is much more robust, and is much easier to restart - especially when there are lots of connected sessions. The development team are fantastic: very active and responsive, and especially responsive to the needs of the IXP community.
Switching hats to Euro-IX, BIRD is now the most used route server amongst IXPs, as can be seen from our latest annual report: https://www.euro-ix.net/documents/1024-Euro-IX-IXP-Report-pdf?download=yes
+1 ... I guess we at DE-CIX perhaps run the largest routeserver setups with full as-path and prefix-list filtering. BIRD really was some magnitudes of perfomance improvement compared to Quagga.
In the meantime some of us (LINX, INEX, DE-CIX) also supported development of Quagga as a routeserver. Biggest issue currently is to get this code into mainline Quagga to make it suitabke for further development and improvement.
Personally I would like to see more work on all three opensource implementations, i.e. BIRD, OpenBGPd and Quagga.
Arnold -- Arnold Nipper CTO/COO e-mail: arnold.nipper@de-cix.net DE-CIX Management GmbH mobile: +49 152 5371 7690 Lichtstr. 43i, 50825 Koeln phone: +49 69 1730 902 22 Geschaeftsfuehrer Harald A. Summa fax: +49 69 4056 2716 Registergericht AG Koeln HRB 51135 http://www.de-cix.net
-- Christian