IMPLEMENTING A SOFTWARE BASED ROUTE SERVER
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. regards Muga
On 2012-09-19 14:05 , Joseph M. Owino wrote:
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.
The IX's seem to be going from software based ones to Cisco's ;) See also amongst others: http://ripe60.ripe.net/presentations/Hilliard-euro-ix-quaggadev.pdf http://conference.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/50771/osr_apnic34_13... http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof22/Sanghani-Euro-IX.pdf http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof13/Hughes-IXP_routeservers.pdf And recently on this very NANOG list: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/155853 Greets, Jeroen
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
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)
On 09/20/2012 12:34 AM, John Kemp wrote:
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... )
A few more comments on this ... At the recent RIPE meeting Ondrej Filip has a new feature called "secondary" that may be a work-around to get away from RIB-per-client. Presentation is here: https://ripe65.ripe.net/presentations/191-BIRD-20120926-OF-RIPE-EIX.pdf There was also a decent talk about a proposed draft for best current practices for BGP security at the IXP. Worth a read. https://ripe65.ripe.net/presentations/256-draft-jdurand-bgp-security-02-RIPE... John Kemp (kemp@routeviews.org)
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