[ixpmanager] Sysctl tweaks?

[Barry O'Donovan]

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Joe,

See "Network Info" under

https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/wiki/Installation-08-Setting-Up-Your-IXP

 - Barry

On 15/04/13 10:38, Joe Wooller wrote:
> One more question;
> 
> In IXP Manager where do you define ixp_rs_address, I was just
> looking at the template files in git, but couldn't find where it
> was defined. Additionally how does your templates go if you are
> running 2 route servers, and does anyone use rr cluster?
> 
> Cheers Joe
> 
> On 15/04/2013, at 5:40 PM, Joe Wooller <Joe at waia.asn.au> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Nick,
>> 
>> I am going to be running it on ubuntu precise, now I just need to
>> get my head around the config structure :P
>> 
>> Joe
>> 
>> On 15/04/2013, at 5:18 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15/04/2013 10:53, Joe Wooller wrote:
>>>> I was curious as to what flavour you run BIRD on (assuming
>>>> linux here) and what sysctl tweaks do you use? I am about to
>>>> jump in to playing with BIRD as a replacement for our Route
>>>> Servers down under, we currently use a vendor..
>>>> 
>>>> If there is anyone else on list using BIRD I would love to
>>>> know your thoughts/experiences/etc too.
>>> 
>>> At the moment, we're running bird 1.3.1 on freebsd 8.2/amd64
>>> with nothing special except for a kernel which supports tcp MD5
>>> checksums.  I.e. no sysctl tweaks.  The configuration sizes
>>> are:
>>> 
>>>> ferris# wc bird-rs2-*.conf 2716   78577 1190603
>>>> bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv4.conf 1780   13030  122797
>>>> bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv6.conf 1345   15133  217224
>>>> bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv4.conf 1031    3227   24602
>>>> bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv6.conf
>>> 
>>> BIRD will also work fine on any recent version of linux.
>>> 
>>> This has turned out to be a very stable configuration for us.
>>> Our BIRD daemons were last restarted in August 2011 and we
>>> haven't had any problems with them since then.  We'll probably
>>> do some maintenance later this year, but this is just for
>>> operating system upgrades.
>>> 
>>> It shouldn't be necessary to do any particular tweaking because
>>> bird isn't exporting any prefixes to the kernel forwarding
>>> table.  It's running as a plain old daemon with a certain
>>> memory footprint and a bunch of open tcp sockets.  I.e. its
>>> requirements are very modest.
>>> 
>>> Nick
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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