A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program. Tim McKee
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Timothy R. McKee wrote:
A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program.
I've been using it for a couple of years. If you don't mind playing with a bleeding edge with minimal end user support (but lots of heavy duty code tuning going on) and some quirks that are quickly being ironed out, it's a heck of a good thing. I cut myself on it occaisionally, but more out of my ignorance than because it has problems. I've used it on Alpha's and Intel Boxen running Linux and oddball hardware including LMC's DS3 Cards. I currently have a problem with my last kernel compile not getting route updates properly, but I think I unchecked the 'make it work' switch. It has a very active, intelligent and dedicated development team. I am anxious for version 1.0 :)
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:02:23AM -0400, mike harrison wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Timothy R. McKee wrote:
A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program.
I've been using it for a couple of years. If you don't mind playing with a bleeding edge with minimal end user support (but lots of heavy duty code tuning going on) and some quirks that are quickly being ironed out, it's a heck of a good thing.
i'm using it in several places for full, multiple view BGP. 90k+ routes, multiple peers. i use it to manage my TorIX connection with some 20+ peers. the OSPF support is a bit wonky, but it works as well. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Now with more and longer words for your reading enjoyment. ]
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Timothy R. McKee wrote:
A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program.
I have been using it for a few months now to announce my personal netblocks. Works fine: home# sho ip bgp summary BGP router identifier 213.136.9.165, local AS number 12859 2 BGP AS-PATH entries 1 BGP community entries Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 213.136.9.162 4 12859 7138 7146 0 0 0 00:01:34 Connect 213.136.9.166 4 12859 10310 10310 0 0 0 6d10h17m 3 The first one is my cable connection (which as you can see is down). I did not notice it until I looked at my stats to paste it here :) -- Sabri Berisha
I'm using zebra since a couple of months mainly for use as route server. zebra (cvs release) now supports full RS feature like "transparent" next-hop, AS and MED. It's running on a Fujitsu-Siemens N100 / Solaris8. No problems with compilation. Bugs are removed within a day or so. Great stuff. Arnold ----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy R. McKee To: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:40 PM Subject: Zebra users? A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program. Tim McKee
Been using it for years. Rick Payne is the one who should be on Nanog with the most 'internal' experience, but from a user perspective it works well. I run a number of networks for my own company and other clients with this on Ethernet and some E1 lines - all on OpenBSD. Fine with some issues - but nothing major. Features currently going in include peer-group support - finally. rgds, -- Peter Galbavy Knowtion Ltd. http://www.knowtion.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Timothy R. McKee" <trm3@nuvox.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:40 PM Subject: Zebra users?
A friend has asked me to find out if anyone on Nanog is using Zebra (a gated replacement) and, if so, to ask for their assessment of the program.
Tim McKee
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