Gatekeeper is a DDoS mitigation system that runs in IXPs. Since it runs in userspace (with DPDK), it uses BIRD to run BGP: https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Mathew Heard via Bird-users < [email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if it counts as what you are after but we use bird for > > our worldwide BGP > looking glass project (as well as for our own uses). > > https://hyperglass.x4b.net/ > > Powered by Hyperglass and with all PoPs currently on Vultr > > On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 01:19, Douglas Fischer via Bird-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I don't know if such a thing already exists... > > But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of > projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure. > > > > I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a > routing engine. > > Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a > routing engine. > > > > I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in > route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where? > > > > In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land. > > I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the > Route-Servers engine. > > I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs > ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily. > > > > But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects > like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to > those who adopt it. > > As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at > https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver . > > > > Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect > Appliances? > > > > I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider > system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project. > > > > Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? > > Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page? > > > > -- > > Douglas Fernando Fischer > > Engº de Controle e Automação > >
