From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 14 00:20:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CC31065676 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:20:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) Received: from cp8.openaccess.org (cp8.openaccess.org [66.114.42.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED768FC24 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:20:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@staff.openaccess.org) Received: from mono-sis1.s.bli.openaccess.org ([66.114.32.149] helo=DeMan.local) by cp8.openaccess.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LtWO8-0000jl-4x for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:20:32 -0700 Message-ID: <49E3D6C6.3070002@staff.openaccess.org> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:20:22 -0700 From: "Michael DeMan (OA)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <5da021490904131135k7c78b2few5c48ee8b0a001e5@mail.gmail.com> <49E39529.1090300@staff.openaccess.org> <5da021490904131408o74e7366dob39081c2337e032c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5da021490904131408o74e7366dob39081c2337e032c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cp8.openaccess.org X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - staff.openaccess.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: BGP with OpenBGPd. X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:20:30 -0000 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