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.nip...@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
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