BIRD Route-Server template configuration

[Wolfgang Hennerbichler]

Good Morning Ondrej,

I've got bird running in a test-setup where it's already working great  
as a route-server with an extremely low memory footprint. Grats for  
that! I'm also getting more and more confident in working with,  
understanding and using bird. However a question that came to my mind  
is the strategy you chose here:

On 21.08.2009, at 22:50, Ondrej Filip wrote:
>
> All session are unfiltered (except max prefix limit) and
> connected to routing table named T<AS#>. So it means all prefixes
> received from R25192x1 and R25192x2 are store in routing table called
> T25192. Each AS has its own routing table. All those routing table are
> connected to the master RT by pipe protocols named P<AS#>. Filtering
> (both in and out) is applied on those PIPE protocols.


Why don't you filter in the BGP sessions directly instead of in the  
pipe-protocol, this saves you some precious memory and doesn't do any  
harm, or am I wrong in my thinking?

Wolfgang

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