Re: NZIX route server filtering (Was: Hurricane Electric joining APE)

Nathan Ward <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:37:28 +1300

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> On 24/10/2018, at 11:33 PM, Job Snijders <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Nathan,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:18:34PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:
>> I recall someone was looking at soft reloads, but I don’t know if that
>> got implemented. I imagine current state (i.e. bogons and a prefix
>> limit) is where that got too.
> 
> Thanks for the background - at this point (2018) I'd strongly recommend
> any IXP to not use zebra & quagga, but instead use BIRD and OpenBGPD.
> Both have the capability to do seamless policy configuration reloads.

Yep. At the time I offered to donate some time to make it OpenBGPD as I was doing a lot of work with it, but, there was already some work underway to fix it apparently.

> There are excellent free tools that can help generate feature rich &
> secure configurations:
> 
>    http://arouteserver.readthedocs.io/
>    https://www.ixpmanager.org/

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