Projects using Bird as routing engine

[Cody Doucette]

Gatekeeper is a DDoS mitigation system that runs in IXPs. Since it runs in
userspace (with DPDK), it uses BIRD to run BGP:
https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Mathew Heard via Bird-users <
bird-users at trubka.network.cz> wrote:

> I don't know if it counts as what you are after but we use bird for
>
> our worldwide BGP
> looking glass project (as well as for our own uses).
>
> https://hyperglass.x4b.net/
>
> Powered by Hyperglass and with all PoPs currently on Vultr
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 01:19, 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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