Hi Rubens, We've found Quagga to be rock solid with the typical application which is under a dozen peers.
We did add a patch to prevent the never-emptying work queue backlog problem when multiple peers flap at the same time. I'm sure this is the problem the IXP folks ran into. Quagga is a very mature, stable RIP/OSPF/BGP platform which, given multi-threading capabilities, will scale to hundreds of peers. Jeff ImageStream 800-813-5123 x106 ________________________________________ From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:51 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Tom DeReggi <wirelessn...@rapiddsl.net> 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ________________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1153 / Virus Database: 424/3234 - Release Date: 11/02/10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
