comparing open source BGP stacks performance

Douglas Fischer fischerdouglas at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 12:33:09 CEST 2021


Could it be compared with Bird Runing one RIB per participant?

Em qua., 25 de ago. de 2021 às 11:16, Laura Smith <
n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp at protonmail.ch> escreveu:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 at 8:03 PM, Chris Malayter <
> mustang at terahertz.net> wrote:
>
> > OpenBGPd has always been a dog.
>
> For those of you who don't monitor the OpenBSD mailing list, explanation
> from Claudio Jeker (one of the key figures in OpenBGPD dev):
>
> The massive amount of memory used in OpenBGPD comes from the fact that
> unlike BIRD OpenBGPD runs with a full Adj-RIB-Out.
>
> The tests result in large amount of prefixes that need to be tracked.
>
> If you have 100 peers announcing 10000 random prefixes then you end up
> with 100 * 100 * 10000 = 100Million elements to manage.
>
> This is not a realistic test since in most cases the number of routes in
> the Adj-RIB-Out is limited (even on route servers).
>
> In the end for day to day use OpenBGPD performs well enough for many
> people. Future releases will focus more on performance and optimizing
> Adj-RIB-Out is on the list.
>
>

-- 
Douglas Fernando Fischer
Engº de Controle e Automação
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