Bird - hardware, vm.

[Martin Huněk]

Hi,

everybody does have a favorite distro, it is always about what works best for 
you. What I know, the developers of the bird are using Debian and Fedora (and 
are providing packages for them directly). It is advisable to use distro with 
longer release cycle for production and with shorter one for testing. But 
basically you can use any of your favorite distro, just make sure that there 
is a repo with current version of bird for it.

As for your 3rd question, I don't have any experience running bird in VM. 
Maybe there is someone in the list whom would have such experience, but 
personally, I think that it is better to run it on hardware. It is just one 
thing less to worry about - at least if you don't have some HA for your VMs 
(in that case it might work for you).

Martin

Dne středa 6. prosince 2017 10:29:57 CET, Mike Neo napsal(a):
> ok, thx
> 
> but what about my 2 questions?
> 
> Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.?
> Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?
> 
> BR
> 
> 2017-12-06 9:05 GMT+01:00 Mo Shivji <moyaze at linx.net>:
> > On 5 Dec 2017, at 21:50, Mike Neo <neomikemac at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think about migration from old cisco 6500 to Bird for bgp (2 feeds,
> > traffic 400Mb)
> > 
> > Could you tell me, is possible to find the best practices doc?
> > Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.?
> > Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Some good information on how to configure BIRD is at
> > 
> > https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/wikis/Examples
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Mo

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