Projects using Bird as routing engine
I don't know if such a thing already exists... But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure. I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a routing engine. Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a routing engine. I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where? In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land. I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the Route-Servers engine. I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily. But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to those who adopt it. As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver . Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect Appliances? I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project. Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page? -- Douglas Fernando Fischer Engº de Controle e Automação
bgpstuff.net uses bird :) On Tue, 18 Oct 2022, 10:18 Douglas Fischer via Bird-users, < bird-users@trubka.network.cz> wrote:
I don't know if such a thing already exists... But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure.
I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a routing engine. Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a routing engine.
I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where?
In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land. I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the Route-Servers engine. I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily.
But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to those who adopt it. As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver .
Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect Appliances?
I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project.
Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
-- Douglas Fernando Fischer Engº de Controle e Automação
I don't know if it counts as what you are after but we use bird for our worldwide BGP looking glass project (as well as for our own uses). https://hyperglass.x4b.net/ Powered by Hyperglass and with all PoPs currently on Vultr On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 01:19, Douglas Fischer via Bird-users <bird-users@trubka.network.cz> wrote:
I don't know if such a thing already exists... But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure.
I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a routing engine. Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a routing engine.
I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where?
In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land. I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the Route-Servers engine. I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily.
But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to those who adopt it. As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver .
Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect Appliances?
I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project.
Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
-- Douglas Fernando Fischer Engº de Controle e Automação
Gatekeeper is a DDoS mitigation system that runs in IXPs. Since it runs in userspace (with DPDK), it uses BIRD to run BGP: https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:40 AM Mathew Heard via Bird-users < bird-users@trubka.network.cz> wrote:
I don't know if it counts as what you are after but we use bird for
our worldwide BGP looking glass project (as well as for our own uses).
Powered by Hyperglass and with all PoPs currently on Vultr
On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 01:19, Douglas Fischer via Bird-users <bird-users@trubka.network.cz> wrote:
I don't know if such a thing already exists... But I thought it would be interesting to have some kind of survey of
projects that use BIRD at some point in their structure.
I know for example that http://projectcalico.org/ uses BIRD as a
routing engine.
Or that https://bsdrp.net/ has the possibility to use FRR or BIRD as a routing engine.
I think it's worth mentioning that Bird has a presence in route-collectors projects... But which ones? Where?
In IXP? Well... This is BIRD land. I think we can estimate that more than 80% of IXPs use BIRD as the Route-Servers engine. I remember seeing a place that said which route-servers from which IXPs ran with which BGP engine. But I couldn't find that link easily.
But still within the scope of IXPs and Route-Servers, there are projects like https://www.ixpmanager.org/ based on the framework it provides to those who adopt it. As well as BIRD appears to be the main choose engine at https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver .
Is it worth mentioning BIRD being used by Netflix in Open Connect Appliances?
I remember recently seeing a project for an Internet Transit Provider system, but I don't remember the name of the blessed project.
Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
-- Douglas Fernando Fischer Engº de Controle e Automação
Hello!
Does anyone else remember anything else that uses BIRD? Would it be interesting to put this information on some public page?
My personal VPN based on a strange mesh of Wireguard tunnels and Babel routing is also using BIRD. ;e) And I vaguely remember some project running BIRD in public transportation internet access points. (And also our customers ofc; it's anyway their choice whether they want to disclose this information.) Maria
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