Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:20:22 -0700 From: "Michael DeMan (OA)" <michael@staff.openaccess.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BGP with OpenBGPd. Message-ID: <49E3D6C6.3070002@staff.openaccess.org> In-Reply-To: <5da021490904131408o74e7366dob39081c2337e032c@mail.gmail.com> References: <5da021490904131135k7c78b2few5c48ee8b0a001e5@mail.gmail.com> <49E39529.1090300@staff.openaccess.org> <5da021490904131408o74e7366dob39081c2337e032c@mail.gmail.com>
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Justin G. wrote: >> >> Justin G. wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> We're an ISP and we're about to switch to routing with OpenBGP with >>> two different providers. We're just doing some preliminary research >>> and I wanted to ask a few questions for those of you here. >>> >>> How many are running OpenBGPd? >>> >>> Is OpenBGPd the "ideal" platform for BGP on FreeBSD? I've know of >>> Zebra and Quagga but was told that OpenBGPd is the way to go. Anyone >>> have any comments? >>> >>> And finally, does anyone have any suggestions or bits of knowledge >>> that would be helpful for us? This is our first venture in to BGP and >>> if there's anything you wish you'd have known when you started, we'd >>> love to know too. >>> >>> Have a great day everyone, and thank you in advance for the responses. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > Hi Michael, > > We're making the jump simply because we're becoming multihomed and are > working towards routing our own IP addresses. It's something that we > are not very experienced with -- uncharted territory. Not so much BGP > in general as much as BGP on PC platforms. I'm hoping the experience > of those in freebsd-isp can save us a couple headaches as we proceed > :-) > > > Hi, and sort of a response on the other post... We run pretty much about 75% FreeBSD+Quagga and 25% Cisco. We ended up choosing Quagga not because we thought it was technically superior to OpenBGP or anything, but because of the consistency in the command line interface. We're a small shop (3-4 employees) so having two completely different sorts of 'syntax / toolsets' to manage routing was just too much trouble. Plus, we run a lot of OSPF as well. - Mike
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