BGP with OpenBGPd.

[Justin G.]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Michael DeMan (OA)
<michael at staff.openaccess.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've looked at OpenBGP off and on over the years, but never actually tried
> it out.
>
> I'm curious on why you decided to make the jump?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - mike
>
>
> 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.
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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
:-)