[ixpmanager] Is there template for route server & route collector configuration template for Quagga

[Diarmuid O Briain]

Isn't Quagga not superseded by Free Range Routing (FRR) {
https://frrouting.org} these days ?

Regards,

Diarmuid

On Thu 24 Jan 2019, 22:02 Nick Hilliard (INEX) <nick at inex.ie wrote:

> Barry O'Donovan wrote on 24/01/2019 08:45:
> > No. Quagga wouldn't be the most suitable daemon for IXP Manager as IXP
> > Manager doesn't maintain state. This is an issue because Quagga (last
> > time I checked which, admittedly, is quite a while) does not support a
> > complete configuration reload function and so - for example - sessions
> > would not be removed.
>
> what this means in practice is that it's troublesome to automate quagga
> effectively, and almost impossible to automate it fully.  Separate to
> this, Quagga has serious problems relating to resource scheduling on
> busy route servers, and some has some race conditions which can cause
> the daemon to crash if you remove peers too quickly under conditions of
> high load.  There is no way of fixing these problems other than
> redesigning and rewriting large chunks of quagga.
>
> We used to use Quagga at INEX several years ago (there are still bits of
> config buried deep in the IXP Manager git repo) but never released what
> we ran in production for the route servers because it was too fragile to
> be able to support properly outside INEX.  The entire framework that
> this coded used has now been removed, so any future attempt to support
> quagga would mean rewriting things from scratch.
>
> I can see the attraction of running a route server with a cisco-style
> CLI, but quagga is unsuitable for reliable route server functionality in
> its current state.
>
> Nick
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