[155832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Aug 24 16:17:38 2012
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A173057D83A0@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:17:13 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:42 PM, 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? We currently
> do blackholes via manual config on one of our real
> routers but are wanting to add a software-based (on linux)
> system where we could script a way for some of our tech
> support folks to add blackhole routes at the direction
> of a network person where they can just enter a command
> and the IP address.
>
seems you want something like quagga on a secured host... that ought
to be fine, you could even just make it an ebgp peer of 2-3 devices
and use that with a route-map to reset the next-hop, there by not
messing up your current nice ibgp mesh.
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
