Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:24:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: "Justin G." <justin@sigsegv.ca> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BGP with OpenBGPd. Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.00.0904131555580.49636@freemac.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <5da021490904131135k7c78b2few5c48ee8b0a001e5@mail.gmail.com> References: <5da021490904131135k7c78b2few5c48ee8b0a001e5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, 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? I don't have much to add, but I am very happy this list is active again. 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... 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). Charles
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