On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mario Lorenz wrote:
Hi there,
I would like to ask on whether bird is actually used in medium-sized production environments and what the experiences are, with regard to stability and possibilities for debugging, especially on the OSPF and BGP parts.
Since I am only learning said more complex routing protocols (until now everything that needed to be done could be handled with static routing or RIP) I wonder if BIRD is a good platform to use. Compared to eg. Cisco or Zebra, the possibilities of getting BGP status information (paths etc) seem to be rather limited. Anyone running BGP on a network consisting of more than just a single box, and running full internet tables ? How How does BIRD do there, since route dampening is on the todo, and the books describe it as a very important feature for an internet grade BGP router ?
OSPF I couldnt test at all, bird just crashes right after startup (probably my config file describes an invalid configuration). Again, can BIRD be recommended as a routing solution for single area OSPF networks, around 20-30 Routers ? Scaling for more areas? Interoperability with other vendors tested ?
Dear Sir, unfortunately, OSPF is not fully stable yet. In my TODO list there is about 3 items, I should solve immediately. I hope, I'll do it before New Year. So please hold a few days. (Or you can help with debuging.) (And then I'll implement multiple areas, virtual links and md5 authentification. And then..... OSPFv3.... Sometimes... Ehm..)
Again, the idea for me is to learn the routing protocols, on a practical example; I dont have 20 Ciscos to play with, and bird looked like a nice little daemon for that job (and also for future deployment, if it works..)
Or any other suggestions ? (Replies to this question please in private, as I dont want to start any flame wars here)
Regards,
Mario
Kind regards Ondrej Filip
-- Ondrej Feela Filip