> Personally I would like to see more work on all three opensource > implementations, i.e. BIRD, OpenBGPd and Quagga.
http://opensourcerouting.org/ to the rescue? -- Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Ph.D. Converged Networks Business Unit CPqD - Center for Research and Development in Telecommunications Tel. (+55 19) 3705 4479 / Cel. (+55 19) 8193-7087 On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Arnold Nipper <arn...@nipper.de> wrote: > 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 > -- Christian