[44654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Source BGP-router?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Fri Dec 7 03:41:26 2001
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 09:40:48 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
To: Irwin Lazar <ILazar@tbg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <53BBA8839E91D51194D200902728944E65CB7D@host3.tbg.com>; from ILazar@tbg.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:49:31PM -0700
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 02:49:31PM -0700,
Irwin Lazar <ILazar@tbg.com> wrote
a message of 14 lines which said:
> > > > Can someone point me to an Open Source OS which can host
> > a BGP-capable router?
>
> See: http://bgpd.sourceforge.net/
It's a funny experiment (a BGP speaker entirely in Perl), but it is
not maintained and I'm not aware of anyone using it in production.
The only free (as in free speech, not as in free beer, i.e. not gated)
BGP speaker in production seems to be Zebra.