[quagga-users 14792] Re: FRR or Quagga

On Mon, 28 Aug 2017, Alexis Rosen wrote:

> We're pretty heavily invested in Quagga, and unfortunately, it has had 
> some serious issues over the last few releases that have not been 
> addressed.

Worth noting, the older ones work as before. ;)

> case, because I would like to see a successful project not dominated 
> by a single commercial company

Oh...

Quagga has lasting power beyond any given corporate. They come and go, 
they should never be relied on too much. Things wax and wane, and will 
wax again. It's a long game.

FWIW, though I'd want you to keep investing in Quagga, particularly in 
supporting development, you also have other options for 
operator-orientated and/or vendor-neutral routing software.

BIRD and OpenBGPd/OpenOSPFd in particular.

BIRD, if I understand correctly, is sustained by an operator owned body. 
OpenBGPd/OpenOSPFd are also sustained via support gathered from a wide, 
user support base. Both are good projects to support (be nice if there 
was a portable OpenBGPd, an OpenOpenBGPd project I guess). I've 
benchmarked BIRD myself, and it's fast. I gather OpenBGPd is too, though 
I havn't tried it much myself.

Things are much better today for operators, with regard to routing 
stacks, than 13+ years ago.

regards,
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