On 9/19/12 5:29 AM, Phil Regnauld wrote:
Joseph M. Owino (jpmuga) writes:
Hi,
Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated. Hello Joseph,
You could do this in a number of ways, running Quagga or BIRD (or even BGPD) on a Linux or BSD server.
Quagga documentation even has a chapter on this:
http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs/quagga.html#SEC115
I'm sure several people on this list have experience with this and will contribute. Also, it might be send this inquiry to the AfNOG list as well (afnog.org).
Finally (plug) we have some resources that may be of interest to you here:
https://nsrc.org/route-bgp-ixp.html
Cheers, Phil
Thought I would add some more links (Bird related...). Seems like the genesis has been from a single-rib on the RS to RIBs-per-client. And more recently to using the IRRs for additional filtering options. AMS-IX for example: https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/specifications-descriptions/ams-ix-route-se... Here's that BIRD stuff... http://www.peering-forum.eu/epf3/presentations/day1/inex-epf-dublin-2008-09-... https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki/Route_server_with_community_ba... http://www.mail-archive.com/bird-users@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/msg00505.htm... John Kemp (kemp@routeviews.org)