> When the number of peers is high, it flops > miserably. I always wonder if that is an Education issue instead of a Quagga issue. Being connected to more peers enables more chances for bad routes sent or compatibility issues.
One advantage of Quagga is its support base. Smarter people than I contribute to the code base. Because Quagga is used in many appliance's OS, and those manufacturer's programmers are likely to contribute to the Quagga source. Atleast Vyatta did. I'm not in an position technically to be able to comment on how Quagga compares to BIRD or OpenBGPd. But its good to know there are choices out there. (Note: I think Imagestream also offered GateD at one point as a choice, but I believe GateD no longer stacks up to Quagga) One negative thing about Quagga is that its "authentication" feature is not natively supported. So might need to run open, and use firewalling and filters to compensate, for lack of security. > might want to take it to the next level by using hardware-based > forwarding, with open-source software and gateware: > http://www.netfpga.org/ Interesting to learn of and read. Although, I question at what point something like Hardware forwarding is really needed. With QuadCoreCPE or Dual Quad, PCI-E, NAPI, and I/0 scaling accross cores, just right there the forwarding speed is fantastic, into the multi-Gigbit (10gb). And as well, with newer XEON (5 series) AT/IO can add to it. (Although some work involved to enable such). Although it might not get full wire speed, it gets close. The advantage of sticking with Intel, is once again the support base. Writing drivers is often above the tech know how of the average ISP tech, and with Intel, a lot of the work is done for you by the commuity. But most importantly, that once Intel driver is selected, that you know there is a huge amount of hardware that will be available long term to use that code, without going back to the code writing drawing board. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rubens Kuhl" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:51 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Tom DeReggi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Note: Quagga has been very reliable for quite some time now. Imagestream >> and >> Vyatta both use Quagga. Both are great choices for BGP routers. > > Although it's a different scenario, the IXP folks beg to differ about > Quagga reliability. When the number of peers is high, it flops > miserably. Some of them moved to OpenBGPd, some of them to BIRD > (http://bird.network.cz). None of them moved to XORP, Mikrotik's > choice (and Vyatta's prior to switching to Quagga). > > If one have time, he or she should test all of the above... with > limited time, I would favor testing BIRD first. > > >> I personally use Mandrake (Mandriva) Linux with a slew of custom >> modifications that we have made, loaded on SuperMicro, and then use >> latest >> Quagga. >> That has worked well for us, the last 5 years. (although, I dont >> recommend >> that to someone, until they are vastly familiar with their distro of >> Linux. >> Last thing you want to do is use your BGP router for a Guinee Pig Science >> project, rebooting it all the time to test script changes.) But once you >> are >> comfortable with your Distro, it works well. > > And once you are comfortable with open-source border routing, you > might want to take it to the next level by using hardware-based > forwarding, with open-source software and gateware: > http://www.netfpga.org/ > > > Rubens > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
