[122539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BIRD vs Quagga
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Mangin)
Tue Feb 16 14:47:56 2010
In-Reply-To: <4B772F9D.3010003@nipper.de>
From: Thomas Mangin <thomas.mangin@exa-networks.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:47:13 +0000
To: Arnold Nipper <arnold@nipper.de>
Cc: nanOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Quagga does not really behave well with lots of peers (lots >> 200), =
but
> there will be an optimized route server version soon.
This was discussed today at Linx 68. Linx is very pleased with Bird - =
they could not get Quagga working due to load issues.
With large numbers of peers, the update processing can cause the program =
to hit his peer HoldTime Timer (with a domino's effect as well).
EuroIX is sponsoring some work on Quagga to get the KeepAlive management =
moved into a separate Thread.
During the discussion, a developers of Bird said that their filtering =
code _may_ still have bugs (when performing community based filtering).
Thomas=
