well, another route-views failure

Wed Oct 3 22:33:13 UTC 2001


	  Folks,

	  I tried again to get a zebra bgpd going to replace the
	  current (Cisco) route-views box. What I have to
	  conclude at this point that zebra bgpd really isn't yet
	  up to handling this kind of scale (not only was it
	  incredibly slow in receiving a single rib (> 35
	  minutes), the vty management thread was too slow to be
	  useful. Add to that that it would crash before it could
	  get all the RIBs, and well....). 

	  I'm not sure what I'm going to do now. I wanted to run
	  a zebra bgpd to get the updates and ribs in MRT format
	  (like the RIPE folks are) as well as the 'sh ip bgp'
	  that we're archiving now, but that doesn't look
	  possible with current generation zebra. 

	  In any event, I'll leave the Cisco there until I can
	  verify whatever I do next works (if not forever), and
	  continue see if we can't debug the zebra bgpd on a
	  different box (I'll need a few duplicate bgp sessions
	  to do this).

	  Sorry for all of this inconvenience.

	  Dave