BGP with OpenBGPd.

[Charles Sprickman]

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