<div dir="ltr">Trying to answer one of your questions:<br>Yes, BIRD is opensource.<br><br>I'm biased, but in my humble opinion, BIRD is the most versatile BGP daemon out there for Route-Server IXP and Route-Reflector IP scenarios.<br><br>Regarding your other statements and questions for your IXP scenario, I will try to address them with some suggestions:<br><br>- Use some Route-Server configuration template feature.<br> - I personally really like what has been done in the project <a href="https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver">https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver</a>.<br> - But the <a href="https://ixpmanager.org/">https://ixpmanager.org/</a> configuration generator project is also reasonable.<br><br>- If possible, don't use just BIRD (or just quagga, or just FRR, or just openbgpd) as the Route-Server daemon, so your resources won't be affected if a problem arises that affects that daemon. Note: This is one of the ideas behind "arouteserver".<br><br><br><br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Em seg., 18 de jul. de 2022 às 07:54, <<a href="mailto:george.nicolae@orange.com">george.nicolae@orange.com</a>> escreveu:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My name is George Nicolae and I work for Orange Romania Communications ( former Telekom Romania Communications). We operate an Internet Exchange : Balcan-IX , that is mainly present in Romania but have also point of presence in countries
around us, and partner with IX-es from this countries.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now we have around 50 customers and 6500 prefixes exchanged.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We now use Quagga for route servers and we analyze what is the best way to upgrade, both as hardware and software.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you developed Bird, that is used by most of the major players in the IX market, we want to ask you for information about usage BIRD as route-server in our IX. Following come in my mind at first hand<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>What hardware did we need for accommodate 2 Route Servers with Bird , taking into consideration following:<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>Double the number of prefixes and customers<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>We use the hardware for Route Servers and if possible for other tools that is related as reporting , looking glass and others if are available. Did you know about integrations of your software with other reporting/configuration
tools ?<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>We have an mixed environment and we need to make customization of the service
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</span></span></span><u></u>Is bird Software free? Do you developed other tools related to usage of this software as Route Server.<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u>What are requirements regarding Operating System and Hypervisor
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also we appreciate any info regarding Bird and also comparison with other alternatives for this role.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">George Nicolae<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Orange Romania Communications<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Douglas Fernando Fischer<br>Engº de Controle e Automação<br><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;color:black;text-align:left;line-height:130%;font-family:"courier new",monospace"></div></div></div>