Hi,
Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated.
regards
Muga
The IX's seem to be going from software based ones to Cisco's 
See also amongst others:
http://ripe60.ripe.net/presentations/Hilliard-euro-ix-quaggadev.pdf
http://conference.apnic.net/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/50771/osr_apnic34_1346132140.pdf
http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof22/Sanghani-Euro-IX.pdf
http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof13/Hughes-IXP_routeservers.pdf
And recently on this very NANOG list:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/nanog/users/155853
Greets,
Jeroen
Joseph M. Owino (jpmuga) writes:
Hi,
Hope you are all well. I work at an exchange point and was seeking any assistance on how to implement a software based route server as currently we are using a Cisco Router for that purpose. Any form of assistance will be highly appreciated.
Hello Joseph,
You could do this in a number of ways, running Quagga or BIRD (or even
BGPD) on a Linux or BSD server.
Quagga documentation even has a chapter on this:
http://www.nongnu.org/quagga/docs/quagga.html#SEC115
I'm sure several people on this list have experience with this and will
contribute. Also, it might be send this inquiry to the AfNOG list as well
(afnog.org).
Finally (plug) we have some resources that may be of interest to you here:
https://nsrc.org/route-bgp-ixp.html
Cheers,
Phil
Thought I would add some more links (Bird related...).
Seems like the genesis has been from a single-rib on the RS
to RIBs-per-client. And more recently to using the IRRs for
additional filtering options. AMS-IX for example:
https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/specifications-descriptions/ams-ix-route-servers
Here's that BIRD stuff...
http://www.peering-forum.eu/epf3/presentations/day1/inex-epf-dublin-2008-09-15-01.pdf
https://git.nic.cz/redmine/projects/bird/wiki/Route_server_with_community_based_filtering
http://www.mail-archive.com/bird-users@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/msg00505.html
John Kemp (kemp@routeviews.org)
A few more comments on this ... At the recent RIPE meeting
Ondrej Filip has a new feature called "secondary" that may be a
work-around to get away from RIB-per-client. Presentation is here:
https://ripe65.ripe.net/presentations/191-BIRD-20120926-OF-RIPE-EIX.pdf
There was also a decent talk about a proposed draft for
best current practices for BGP security at the IXP. Worth a read.
https://ripe65.ripe.net/presentations/256-draft-jdurand-bgp-security-02-RIPE65-02.pdf
John Kemp (kemp@routeviews.org)