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Re: using gated for multi-home BGP
From: Peter Galbavy <Peter.Galbavy () knowledge com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:01:08 +0100
On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 12:12:42PM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
the configs are based on a few factoids derived from the examples and alot of trial and error.
also, if using an intel platform, with FreeBSD, what would your recommendations be for processor/RAM with two full peers?
This is *not* a recommendation to drop gated, but you may want to start looking at zebra (http://www.zebra.org) which is becoming stable enough to use in a "real" environment. Comparing to the public versions of gated, it uses less memory and less CPU and supported lots more "new" (read necessary) attributes. Our external router (just onefor now - it is only a small network) runs gated, but next time I am back in the office on a weekend it is likely to get zebra installed. I have zebra operating (bgpd actually - not kernel updates) on my test/desktop machine with 3 full-ish BGP peers in 64M RAM: bgpd> show ip bgp sum Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/Pref 195.40.167.193 4 9179 435872 59921 0 0 0 01w2d16h 66646 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 4 AAAA 1856882 61712 0 0 0 3d08h37m 65153 YYYYYYYYYYYYY 4 BBBBB 106231 133262 0 0 0 5d21h22m 27668 from top: PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND ... 16556 root 2 0 20M 21M sleep select 23:18 0.34% bgpd (IP and ASes blurred to protect my testing partners). This is no exports - import only, but export works OK in our smaller tests. The only major area I think needs lots of work is logging - I can say this because I volunteered to do it, but have not had any spare time in the passed couple of months. Regards, -- Peter Galbavy Knowledge Matters Ltd http://www.knowledge.com/
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- Re: using gated for multi-home BGP Peter Galbavy (Oct 18)
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