[155872] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bird vs Quagga revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lamparter)
Tue Aug 28 19:35:23 2012
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:26:27 +0200
From: David Lamparter <equinox@opensourcerouting.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAEj5p9Sa5jDWDrs+Z_=p3EdEYfHV0UYGUJ4Jy5-EmTx4kDa7aQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> > Personally I would like to see more work on all three opensource
> > implementations, i.e. BIRD, OpenBGPd and Quagga.
>
> http://opensourcerouting.org/ to the rescue?
Hi, I'm David Lamparter, employed at the OpenSourceRouting (OSR) project
to maintain Quagga.
I can tell you that the OSR's interest is in providing a stable
open-source routing platform for actual switches/routers (with either a
software or hardware forwarding plane). Quagga and BIRD were considered
equally; Quagga's single-RIB design and existence of isisd were what
tipped the scales.
We primarily perform conformance and scale testing and fix/enhance in
those areas; also we support 3rd parties in cleaning and submitting
Quagga patches/features.
OSPF and IS-IS are stronger targets currently since they need more work
than BGP, and also Euro-IX already did much of the latter. Merging that
is on the TODO, but it's a lot of work. Even as a Quagga maintainer, I
must currently recommend against using mainline Quagga as a route
server. Please use Euro-IX Quagga, and if you can/want, convince your
decisionmakers to support Chris Hall on that -- I've been told future
work on the Euro-IX Quagga branch is not certain.
There's been a BoF on RIPE64 with OSR, BIRD and Quagga involvement.
There'll be one at RIPE65 again I think. Either way if you have
questions, feel free to ask.
-David
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