[155804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Thu Aug 23 03:53:29 2012
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:52:31 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A173057D83A0@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
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On 22 Aug 2012, at 18:42, David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com> =
wrote:
> Of those who have used Quagga or Bird, or anything else,
> would either of them be appropriate and/or well suited for
> use as an iBGP blackhole route server?
You can use Quagga or Bird as a blackhole BGP injector, because the =
forwarding load is next to nothing and the number of prefixes in your =
blackhole RIB is likely to be small.
You might - if you programatically get the blackhole criteria from your =
crm or some other database find ExaBGP to be easier to integrate with =
your data source. ExaBGP is a very lightweight BGP speaker that is =
perfectly suited for this purpose - http://code.google.com/p/exabgp/
Andy=
