Projects using Bird as routing engine

Darren O'Connor mellow.drifter at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 16:24:50 CEST 2022


bgpstuff.net uses bird :)

On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 10:18 Douglas Fischer via Bird-users, <
bird-users at trubka.network.cz> wrote:

> I don't know if such a thing already exists...
> But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of
> projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure.
>
> I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a routing
> engine.
> Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a
> routing engine.
>
> I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors
> projects... But which ones? Where?
>
> In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land.
> I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the
> Route-Servers engine.
> I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs
> ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily.
>
> But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects
> like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to
> those who adopt it.
> As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at
> https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver .
>
> Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect
> Appliances?
>
> I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider
> system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project.
>
> Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD?
> Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
>
> --
> Douglas Fernando Fischer
> Engº de Controle e Automação
>
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