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have available. It seems many people use cisco routers and do not know
what would be best to use when using Linux/Debian to do the BGP work.
Are there any suggestions on what software is best or is easiest to implent and use?
apt-cache search bgp routing brings back a slim selection of packages...
What software would you use, or how do you do this?
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#apt-get search zebra
quagga - unoff. successor of the Zebra BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon
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quagga's web site suggests that it is a fork of zebra, and it looks much more active than zebra does.
i've never used either package myself, though.
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thanks
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Quagga is very (!) good project. Really! Try it, use it, enjoy it. Best thing about Quagga is that because of it's "IOS-like" environment when connected to daemons it is really easy to administrate it. I was familiar with it the day I started with it. So I think bgpd from the Quagga project will suite all your needs and you will like it. Do now: apt-get install quagga.
On the other hand, I would like to ask if there is some good alternative for Quagga??
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You can also try Bird Internet Routing Project but it seems to be highly experimental at the very moment and I have neigther positive nor negative references whether it works properly and is stable or not.
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mjf
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Be warned though that
a) PC hardware is not optimized for routing or more precisely "forwarding" so be sure to buy big hardware if you plan to forward 100+MBit/s (and although a cisco
might work with 128MB RAM for BGP, Linux should get 1GB just to be sure)
b) PC hardware isn't really desgined for 24/7 neither so do not buy that $10
power supply and build a server yourself but go for hardware proven Dell/IBM server with 4h replacement contract. It's still cheaper than Cisco :)
c) Linux is more complicated to administrate than Cisco and if your company internet access goes down because the root partition on the linux router is full you'll get a problem :)
d) Quagga, as Cisco, has some caveats so check your design on the mailing list because if something is incompatible the management blames "Linux" even if Quagga is standards compliant and Cisco is not...
bye,
-christian-
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Linux and Debian are great tools regardless...
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