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Re: Low Cost 10G Router

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Odintsov)
Wed May 20 10:03:11 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 17:00:59 +0300
From: Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Yes, you could do filtering with Quagga. But Quagga is pretty old tool
without multiple dynamic features. But with ExaBGP you could do really
any significant route table transformations with Python in few lines
of code. But it's definitely add additional point of failure/bug.


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 20/05/2015 14:56, Pavel Odintsov wrote:
>> Yes, right! But ExaBGP could receive full BGP table, drop some rules
>> and reflect they to Quagga which could load FIB on the Cumulus.
>
> or you could not bother with exabgp and do your route filtering on quagga.
>
> Nothing wrong with exabgp, btw.  Great product.  It's just the wrong tool
> for the job here.
>
> Nick
>
>



-- 
Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov

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