Re: Recommendations for a BGP speaker?

[Gert Doering <gert%greenie.muc.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 03:17:37PM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:18???AM Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > What would you folks currently recommend for a BGP speaker?  I'm
> > looking at possibly replacing a machine that's now running quagga
> > (using zebra for BGP), but as far as I can tell quagga is now basically
> > orphanware.  Or am I wrong, and I just didn't find the correct place to
> > look for quagga?
> 
> I'm kind of surprised nobody said OpenBGPD. I haven't tried it so I
> have no idea if it works.

We use OpenBGPd for "small deployments" - a few routes only - on FreeBSD,
and it works well.  Syntax is different from IOS/Zebra/FRR and Bird, which 
some consider an advantage and others less so :-)

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert%greenie.muc.de@localhost