Bird on Ubuntu VM.

[Mike Neo]

ok, thx

What about upgrade? to 2.x or 3.x?
Do you have any guide on how to upgrade configuration from 1.6 to a higher
version?

śr., 8 sty 2025 o 09:06 Maria Matejka <maria.matejka at nic.cz> napisał(a):

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