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Date:      Wed, 03 Mar 2004 06:09:29 +0100
From:      Arnaud Pignard <apignard@frontier.fr>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My planned work on networking stack
Message-ID:  <6.0.3.0.2.20040303054929.06bc9988@213.161.193.184>
In-Reply-To: <p06002014bc6a36fcdf29@[10.0.1.3]>
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At 14:24 02/03/2004, Brad Knowles wrote:
>At 3:59 PM +0300 2004/03/02, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>
>>   Haven't you understand? I'm the "person who has real-world experience
>>  in running zebra in ISP environments with multiple upstreams and taking
>>  full views".
>
>         Do you have multiple connectivity to two separate metro area=20
> exchanges, with multiple upstreams at each?  Most large cities are lucky=
=20
> to have a single major metro area exchange, and the author of bgpd for=20
> OpenBSD works at an ISP located in Hamburg which is lucky enough to have=
=20
> two major NAPs, and he has multiple connectivity to both.  He was the one=
=20
> ragging on zebra/quagga.  Among other things, he said he had real=20
> problems keeping sessions up with zebra/quagga when neighbors were=
 flapping.

I know some small/medium ISP in France how are 100% zebra (or quagga) with=
=20
at least 2 full net table with at least 130000 pfx

When said small they have at least an average of 10-20 Mbps. As far as i=20
know one is 100% zebra more than 100 Mbps and seems stable.

On our side, we have a Zebra with receving 2 full table & +130 peers as a=20
backup router without any trouble now (we have 3 cisco & 1 zebra)
0.92 & 0.93 was unstable. BGPD crash many times on peer routing table or=20
full net table.
since 0.93b uptime wasn't broken
Our zebra router already handle more than 60 Mbps without problem and so=20
few cpu use that's my cisco router was jalious ;)
Currently i make so use for peering with ~40 Mbps since some months and i'm=
=20
very happy with it.

the design of zebra won't be interrested for have fast & evolutive solution=
=20
regarding juniper or cisco 7x00 (except 7100 how is soo slow ;)

Regarding 1ghz pc vs cisco 7x00 ... bpg & routing use less cpu on pc...=20
filter and such thing are much faster (7206vxr for example when i done some=
=20
test)

However where zebra bgp daemon is so crap and so slow is when flapping or=20
when clearing big session. But it's a design problem no ?

I would like find very usefull to have bgpd integrate into base system. But=
=20
maybe i'm not very objective since i work all the day with AS/Routing.

Regarding interfaces that's PC router can deliver,
All major carrier deliver FastEthernet / GigaEthernet or 10 Gig...
OCx or Ex or Tx are mostly dead in Europe for deliver any ISP. Except=20
Global Crossing how was the last in France, *all* major carrier deliver=20
FastEthernet or GIG.
All gix are in E/FE/GE (lynx / ams-ix / fr : parix / freeix / sfinx etc...)

Regards,

--=20
Arnaud Pignard (apignard@frontier.fr)
Frontier Online - Op=E9rateur Internet




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