Getting a BGP table in to a lab

Thu Apr 21 15:17:52 UTC 2005

Quagga is great for smaller implementations, but it doesn't scale very
well.  It eats up a lot of CPU, so once you hit a certain number of BGP
peers, it may start intermittently flapping BGP sessions, or even just
crash the bgpd process entirely.  Although, I don't recall whether or
not the newer versions support multi-threading for dual processors
now...

-Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Frotzler, Florian
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:35 AM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

Hi,

Zebra is outdated, the successor is called quagga (at least on debian)
and is capable of providing most of the vendor C BGP features, though
MD5 autentication is still experimental I think. We used to push a
handful of BGP full feeds on our quagga router and it didn't stumble a
bit. OSPF also works quite well, btw.

Florian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Scott Morris
> Sent: Donnerstag, 21. April 2005 02:50
> To: swm at emanon.com; 'Nathan Ward'; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Getting a BGP table in to a lab
> 
> 
> Forget part of my reply here...  I thought someone was
> posting from the CCIE forum stuff I do.  
> 
> So disregard the lack-of-caffeine-induced, retarded command
> about no router being able to support a full feed.  :)
> 
> My apologies....
> 
> Zebra is still a good idea though!
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Scott Morris
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:42 PM
> To: 'Nathan Ward'; nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: RE: Getting a BGP table in to a lab
> 
> 
> None of the routers that are tested in the lab are capable of
> supporting a full BGP feed....
> 
> If you just want to play with BGP stuff, you can use Zebra
> (unix) or go to www.nantech.com and get their BGP4WIN program.
> 
> That may help you a bit more.
> 
> Scott
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Ward
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:35 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Getting a BGP table in to a lab
> 
> 
> I'm trying to come up with a way to get a full BGP routing
> table in to my lab.
> I'm not really fussed about keeping it up to date, so a 
> snapshot is fine.
> At the moment, I'm thinking about spending a few hours 
> hacking together a BGP daemon in perl to peer with and record 
> a table from a production router, disconnect, and then start 
> peering with lab routers.
> 
> Am I reinventing a wheel here?
> 
> --
> Nathan Ward
> 
> 
> 
> 