AW: Getting a BGP table in to a lab

["John van Oppen" <john () vanoppen com>]

I agree...   I have around 75 peers on a box that actually does the routing running quagga, and there appears to be no 
problem.   My only issues have been with version upgrades having bugs in them, but those problems are due to my 
inadequate testing.  I also utilize supervise scripts (daemontools)to keep all the 

The best feature is being able to use the same route maps I use on my cisco boxes.

John :)


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Von: Arnold Nipper [mailto:arnold () nipper de] 
Gesendet: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:09 PM
An: Reeves, Rob
Cc: nanog () merit edu
Betreff: Re: Getting a BGP table in to a lab



On 21.04.2005 17:17 Reeves, Rob wrote

> 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.

For what numbers? I've two quaggas, ~150 peers each, doing as-path and 
*full* prefix filtering for each peer (Config is around 9MB). CPU is 
idle 99.x% mostly ...





Arnold
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