I'm wondering if anyone has deployed BIRD as a BGP routing daemon in a production environment?
Any feedback on it's stability would be appreciated.
Yes, I'm using it as BGP router. I have two peers that I connect to. I'm filtering the full BGP route table, because I don't need it, so I dont know how bird will act in such situation. Now I'm using 1.0.5 (on Slackware 8.1 Linux)... when I tried 1.0.6 it didn't work for some reason and I imediatelly changed back to 1.0.5 because it is in production use. I'v also had one oter issue with bird. Sometimes, rarely-but it happens, when I'm disconnected to the peer (ex. satellite link down) - bird while trying to reconnect would garble the IP address of the peer. Then I would have to kill and restart bird. This has happened some 4-5 times (I think) in 2 years, and I don't know how to reproduce it... Luckilly that I was present at those times at my BGP server, so I could see and repair the situation. I also couldn't find any connection of the original peer address and the mistaken one bird was trying to connect to. -- Damjan Georgievski