[155761] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vlad Galu)
Wed Aug 22 16:52:12 2012
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:51:16 +0100
From: Vlad Galu <galu@packetdam.com>
To: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
In-Reply-To: <5034B6A0.6080904@nosignal.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Andy Davidson wrote:
> I'm not clear what you care about from a performance point of view -
> forwarding ? acting as a route-server ? collector ? BIRD is a great,
> super-fast route-server daemon - much "better" than typical competitors
> Quagga and OpenBGPd at this job. In a forwarding capacity, I do not
> know and I would really think that Operating system performance and
> environment tuning will have more to do with forwarding performance than
> the daemon used.
>
+1. FIB performance and RIB performance are two very different things, and the former depends on the OS. Besides (although I haven't checked this recently), Quagga still does not support multiple FIBs.
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