On 9/19/12 5:29 AM, Phil Regnauld wrote: > 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 (k...@routeviews.org)