well, another route-views failure

[David Meyer <dmm () sprint net>]

          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