On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Yury Bokhoncovich wrote:
We've got BIRD running for 3 months uptime with 1 peer, then (read: one day before yesterday) I reboot the host due to maintainance operation. Not yet 2nd peer up, I'll try it ASAP. BIRD eats near 15MB total and 14MB RSS for full-view BGP stream with one peer (approx. 126000 routes in the system). There was a little glitch with our gibberish config 'cos we also make use 2 non-BGP links and policy routing for them (ip ro, ip ru) on E1 trunk. BIRD had catched one link right and had got stuck on 2nd link (i.e. the system had partially wrong routing). After killing and restarting BIRD all became OK.
Sorry, we have no experience with OSPF/RIP. We just have migrated from our Cisco 3620 to a more affordable PC-router (IBM x305) and seems to be happy.
I'm looking at 2 upstreams (provisioned over Ethernet, b/w throttled by the upstream ISP to "E1" initially) with full BGP peering. Might dabble with OSPF for internal stuff (not decided yet) for a small (but expanding) community broadband project, routers running Linux. (2GHz Athlon/256MB RAM, boot from flash) Gordon