good, cheap, built by someone else....
pick 2 On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: > So, from the sounds of it most are saying for low cost, the way to go would > be a software router, which I was trying to avoid. To answer the bandwidth > question, we would have three 10G ports with three different carriers and > at max push 10Gbps of total traffic to start. > > I think this leaves me with hardware routers that can support full BGP > tables. So, who actually sells full bgp routers. So far on my list I have: > Juniper MX Series > Brocade MLXe or CER > Cisco ASR 9K > Huawei NE40E-X1-M4 > ZTE, not sure which model? > ALU 7750 > > Besides the above, am I missing anyone else that makes a true carrier grade > hardware router? > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Pavel Odintsov <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Yes, we could run route add / route del when we got any announce from >> external world with ExaBGP directly. I have implemented custom custom >> Firewall (netmap-ipfw) management tool which implement in similar >> manner. But I'm working with BGP flow spec. It's so complex, standard >> BGP is much times simpler. >> >> And I could share my ExaBGP configuration and hook scripts. >> >> ExaBGP config: >> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_firewall.conf >> >> Hook script which put all announces to Redis Queue: >> >> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_queue_writer.py >> >> But full BGP route table is enough big and need external processing. >> >> But yes, with some Python code is possible to implement route server >> with ExaBGP. >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Aled Morris <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 20 May 2015 at 15:00, Pavel Odintsov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Yes, you could do filtering with Quagga. But Quagga is pretty old tool >> >> without multiple dynamic features. But with ExaBGP you could do really >> >> any significant route table transformations with Python in few lines >> >> of code. But it's definitely add additional point of failure/bug. >> > >> > >> > Couldn't your back-end scripts running under ExaBGP also manage the FIB, >> > using standard Unix tools/APIs? >> > >> > Managing the FIB is basically just "route add" and "route delete" right? >> > >> > Aled >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov >>
