[122381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIRD vs Quagga
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Fri Feb 12 20:02:09 2010
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <4B75DB7D.9070308@ibctech.ca>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:01:06 +1300
To: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 13/02/2010, at 11:51 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> fwiw, I've also heard good things about bgpd(8) and ospfd(8), but I
> haven't tried those either...zebra/Quagga just stuck.
=0D
OpenBGPd would be great for a public route server at an IX.
It's not so great for use in a network unless you run it on OpenBSD - =
FreeBSD has no metric attribute in it's routing tables, so next-hop IGP =
metric cannot be compared as the two daemons do not communicate directly =
at all.
If you're on anything other than OpenBSD, I recommend Quagga. I can't =
comment on BIRD as I have no experience with it yet.
XORP is also interesting, it's a more JunOS like interface. It's also =
some quite heavy C++, so running it on the tiny Soekris boxes that I had =
meant it wouldn't work for me. If you can spare the CPU and RAM then =
give XORP a go.
--
Nathan Ward
