Inexpensive software bgp router that supports route tags?

Wed Jul 1 18:36:30 UTC 2015

FYI, Mikrotik is software (ROS) you can run it on an x86 platform (physical or virtual machine).
Not sure about the API and BGP, but they have extensive support for scripting.
Additionally check the Mikrotik Forums for other user developed API/Interfaces...

Regards.

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David H" <ispcolohost at gmail.com>
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 11:19:45 AM
> Subject: Inexpensive software bgp router that supports route tags?
> 
> Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can recommend a software (preferable), or
> hardware-based router with an API, that supports BGP with tags on
> advertised routes?  I want to use it for a RTBH feed and having it in
> software would make certain things easier to automate.  I tried
> Quagga/Zebra but it doesn't support tags.  I see Mikrotik hardware routers
> have an API, but I can't tell if the API supports adding BGP networks, so I
> need to investigate that further.  I can go hardware if I have to, with
> some ssh/expect scripts, but thought there may be other options that are
> easier.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David
> 