[ixpmanager] OpenBGPd

[Mike Hammett]

I'll have to figure out the reasoning we were recommended to use OpenBSD\OpenBGPd. A good friend of mine that made that recommendation is on INEX and generally gives security presentations. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 



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From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick at inex.ie> 
To: "INEX IXP Manager Mailing List" <ixpmanager at inex.ie> 
Sent: Sunday, April 5, 2015 5:10:44 AM 
Subject: Re: [ixpmanager] OpenBGPd 

On 05/04/2015 03:43, Mike Hammett wrote: 
> I see IXP Manager supports OpenBGPd for route collection and AS112, but 
> seemingly not as a route server. Why is this? 

Route servers are a different kettle of fish to a standard bgp stack. 

The openbsd people made a decision not to port openbgpd to any other 
operating system, which means that you can only run openbgpd as a route 
server if you're prepared to run openbsd. 

Whether due to this or other reasons, openbgpd is no longer widely used as 
a route server daemon. In 2009, it was running on ~35% of all euro-ix 
member route servers. Currently that figure is ~5% and dropping, so 
openbgpd is very much a minority platform. 

There is a port dating from 2012 in freebsd, but it lacks some features 
that you'd want for RS operation, e.g. md5 support. The port is pretty 
hacky (large amounts of "#if 0") and very stale, so I would personally be 
pretty uncomfortable with deploying this for a production grade service. 

Nick 
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