Bird on Ubuntu VM.

[Maria Matejka]

Hello Mike,

On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Mike Neo wrote:

> I currently have 2 servers Dell R310 with Bird 1.6 on Ubuntu
> (Active/Passive), one full BGP table and one IX, traffic around 400Mbps,
> simple BGP routing. I also have an HA cluster built on ESXi and I wonder if
> it would be a good idea to run BIRD (maybe 2.0/3.0?) on a VM (Ubuntu) on
> this ESXi HA cluster. What are your experiences with this, what are the
> limitations and recommendations?

It will run, BIRD just works if you give enough memory to hold the
tables. I have recently encountered some performance problems with
Netlink when trying to feed 10+ container nodes with full BGP at once,
but ESXi is a full virtualization, so no problem there.

And please upgrade from 1.6, that's out of support for more than a year
already.

Have a nice day! 
Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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