Re: [nznog] NZIX route server filtering (Was: Hurricane Electric joining APE)

On 24/10/2018, at 11:33 PM, Job Snijders wrote:

Dear Nathan,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:18:34PM +1300, Nathan Ward wrote:

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I recall someone was looking at soft reloads, but I don’t know if that got implemented. I imagine current state (i.e. bogons and a prefix limit) is where that got too.

Thanks for the background - at this point (2018) I'd strongly recommend any IXP to not use zebra & quagga, but instead use BIRD and OpenBGPD. Both have the capability to do seamless policy configuration reloads.

Yep. At the time I offered to donate some time to make it OpenBGPD as I was doing a lot of work with it, but, there was already some work underway to fix it apparently.

There are excellent free tools that can help generate feature rich & secure configurations:

http://arouteserver.readthedocs.io/ https://www.ixpmanager.org/