[ixpmanager] Sysctl tweaks?

[Joe Wooller]

Thank you kind sir!

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On 15/04/2013, at 6:41 PM, Barry O'Donovan <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:

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> Joe,
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> See "Network Info" under
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> https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/wiki/Installation-08-Setting-Up-Your-IXP
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> - Barry
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> 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:
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>>> 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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