From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 14 13:04:55 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 57B241065691 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from ibctech.ca (v6.ibctech.ca [IPv6:2607:f118::b6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAB978FC08 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:04:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 31125 invoked by uid 89); 14 Apr 2009 13:12:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?IPv6:2607:f118::5?) (steve@ibctech.ca@2607:f118::5) by v6.ibctech.ca with ESMTPA; 14 Apr 2009 13:12:47 -0000 Message-ID: <49E489EB.2090802@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:04:43 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Sprickman References: <5da021490904131135k7c78b2few5c48ee8b0a001e5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, "Justin G." 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 13:04:56 -0000 Charles Sprickman wrote: > I've been toying with the idea of replacing an aging Cisco with either a > used Juniper box or a PC running *BSD. Everytime I look at Quagga or > Zebra, I'm not impressed. They both sound quite buggy... We've been using Quagga (zebra, ospfd, ospf6d, bgpd) for quite some time (due to CLI consistency with Cisco as someone else stated). I don't understand how they "sound" buggy. What exactly are you referring to? Which pieces are you concerned with? All we did was light up a couple of Quagga boxes in the lab, and load them up so it replicates our production environment. No problems, we went to production. We test anything new in the lab, and then roll it out if it is stable. I've yet to find a bug. Every time I think I've found something, it has come down to a simple inconsistency between how I'd do the same thing on a Cisco IOS. > How many folks here are doing routing on a PC platform? These days > almost all the links we need to support are ethernet, with our DSL stuff > being the one exception (ATM OC-3). We run ~1/2 of our routers on FBSD based hardware that run from either USB thumb stick, or CF/SD cards. As for your OC3's: http://www.prosum.net/atm155_E.html Cheers, Steve