Hi Mark,
Not really sure (claudio@ will certainly correct me), but I know that
OpenBGPD in FreeBSD's ports is never fresh enough. And there was
changes afecting the behaviour of OpenBSD's version.
So I think you should just install OpenBSD instead of Freebsd and try
again.
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:03:47 -0600
"Mark Felder" <f...@feld.me> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I work at an ISP and we are very interested in running OpenBGPD on
> the edges talking to our transport routers. They won't be routing
> traffic, but really just act as an internal BGP cache. Right now our
> Cisco equipment is not pulling its weight. When we have flaps with an
> upstream provider we run into serious downtime... It takes Cisco
> about 10 minutes to crunch the bgp tables whereas our tests so far
> show that OpenBGPD does it in about 8 seconds. This is fantastic!
>
> We have a test environment setup but there's one issue I can't seem
> to overcome. It might be my lack of BGP knowledge, but it seems like
> I'm doing everything right. Here's the scenario:
>
> $peer1 = cisco -- we're just sending full routes to $peer2 (not sure
> if my coworker set this up as a reflector or what, but it works)
> $peer2 = openbgpd on freebsd. I am successfully receiving full routes
> (8 seconds from a cold start. Amazing!)
> $peer3 = openbgpd on openbsd. I'm trying to get all those routes
> from $peer2 so we can test things between the openbgpd instances, but
> this is not working.
>
> The attached censored configs are the currents state of affairs and
> I'm quite frustrated. I've tried so many different things. Google
> isn't being kind to me.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Mark
> #macros
> peer1="X.X.0.1"
> peer3="X.X.7.201"
> #local_ip="X.X.7.202"
> as="0000"
>
> # global configuration
> AS $as
> log updates
>
> # neighbors and peers
> neighbor $peer1 {
> remote-as $as
> #local-address $local_ip
> descr "router01.excelsior"
> announce none
> }
>
> neighbor $peer3 {
> remote-as $as
> #local-address $local_ip
> descr "openbsd-201"
> announce all
> route-reflector
> }
>
> # filters
> allow from any
> allow to any
> #macros
> peer1="X.X.7.202"
> local_ip="X.X.7.201"
> as="0000"
>
> # global configuration
> AS $as
> log updates
>
> # neighbors and peers
> neighbor $peer1 {
> remote-as $as
> descr "freebsd-202"
> announce none
> }
>
> # filters
> allow from any
> allow to any
>
--
With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov
