Hello Jesse, For me the main advantage of Bird 3.0 is that it will support multicore for BGP sessions. Currently (both Bird 1.6 and 2.0) process BGP messages on a single core, which can be a performance bottleneck. The last time when I got new routers I picked routers with a very high single core process speed, not a lot of cores. Specifically for this reason. But going to multicore with Bird would be great! Currently Bird 3.0 is in alpha state, specifically 3.0alpha0 is the current release, they are working on a second 3.0 alpha release, called 3.0alpha1. So, it is all still in early development. Running it in production is thus not recommended, but testing with it will be appreciated by the Bird project. Kind regards, Cybertinus On 04-04-2023 23:37, Jesse Mac Dougall via Bird-users wrote:
I am curious to see the benefits of bird 3.0 compared to 2.x. I don't see anything posted on https://bird.network.cz/. Is bird 3.0 in beta phase?
This is my first time using bird so I am contemplating if I should upgrade to bird 3.0 or stick with bird 2.x.