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Re: BIRD vs Quagga

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold Nipper)
Sat Feb 13 18:03:25 2010

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:02:53 +0100
From: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
To: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
In-Reply-To: <5CC5BD71-7131-4703-9164-564017FD3616@daork.net>
Cc: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 13.02.2010 02:01 Nathan Ward wrote

> On 13/02/2010, at 11:51 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
>=20
>> fwiw, I've also heard good things about bgpd(8) and ospfd(8), but I
>> haven't tried those either...zebra/Quagga just stuck.
>=20
>=20
> OpenBGPd would be great for a public route server at an IX.
>=20

Be cautious when doing filtering. bgpctl will hang for minutes, even
hours. Otherwise OpenBGPD seems to be very performant.

Quagga does not really behave well with lots of peers (lots >> 200), but
there will be an optimized route server version soon.

BIRD seems to do fine.




Best regards,
Arnold
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Arnold Nipper / nIPper consulting, Sandhausen, Germany
email: arnold@nipper.de       phone: +49 6224 9259 299
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