Large scale deployment ?

[Ondrej Feela Filip]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mario Lorenz wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I would like to ask on whether bird is actually used in medium-sized
> production environments and what the experiences are, with regard to
> stability and possibilities for debugging, especially on the OSPF and
> BGP parts.
>
> Since I am only learning said more complex routing protocols (until now
> everything that needed to be done could be handled with static routing
> or RIP) I wonder if BIRD is a good platform to use. Compared to eg.
> Cisco or Zebra, the possibilities of getting BGP status information (paths etc)
> seem to be rather limited. Anyone running BGP on a network consisting of
> more than just a single box, and running full internet tables ? How How does
> BIRD do there, since route dampening is on the todo, and the books describe
> it as a very important feature for an internet grade BGP router ?
>
>
> OSPF I couldnt test at all, bird just crashes right after startup
> (probably my config file describes an invalid configuration). Again, can BIRD
> be recommended as a routing solution for single area OSPF networks, around
> 20-30 Routers ? Scaling for more areas?
> Interoperability with other vendors tested ?

Dear Sir, unfortunately, OSPF is not fully stable yet. In my TODO list
there is about 3 items, I should solve immediately. I hope, I'll do it
before New Year.  So please hold a few days. (Or you can help with
debuging.)

(And then I'll implement multiple areas, virtual links and md5
authentification. And then..... OSPFv3.... Sometimes... Ehm..)

> Again, the idea for me is to learn the routing protocols, on a practical
> example; I dont have 20 Ciscos to play with, and bird looked like a nice
> little daemon for that job (and also for future deployment, if it works..)
>
> Or any other suggestions ? (Replies to this question please in private, as I
> dont want to start any flame wars here)
>
> Regards,
>
> Mario

			Kind regards
				Ondrej Filip

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Ondrej Feela Filip