[43306] in North American Network Operators' Group
well, another route-views failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Meyer)
Wed Oct 3 18:33:51 2001
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 15:33:13 -0700
From: David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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miyake@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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Folks,
I tried again to get a zebra bgpd going to replace the
current (Cisco) route-views box. What I have to
conclude at this point that zebra bgpd really isn't yet
up to handling this kind of scale (not only was it
incredibly slow in receiving a single rib (> 35
minutes), the vty management thread was too slow to be
useful. Add to that that it would crash before it could
get all the RIBs, and well....).
I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I wanted to run
a zebra bgpd to get the updates and ribs in MRT format
(like the RIPE folks are) as well as the 'sh ip bgp'
that we're archiving now, but that doesn't look
possible with current generation zebra.
In any event, I'll leave the Cisco there until I can
verify whatever I do next works (if not forever), and
continue see if we can't debug the zebra bgpd on a
different box (I'll need a few duplicate bgp sessions
to do this).
Sorry for all of this inconvenience.
Dave
