BGP with OpenBGPd.

[Michael DeMan (OA)]

Justin G. wrote:
>>
>> 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
> :-)
>
>
>   

Hi, and sort of a response on the other post...

We run pretty much about 75% FreeBSD+Quagga and 25% Cisco.  We ended up 
choosing Quagga not because we thought it was technically superior to 
OpenBGP or anything, but because of the consistency in the command line 
interface.  We're a small shop (3-4 employees) so having two completely 
different sorts of 'syntax / toolsets' to manage routing was just too 
much trouble.  Plus, we run a lot of OSPF as well.

- Mike