[ixpmanager] Sysctl tweaks?

[Joe Wooller]

One more question; 

In IXP Manager where do you define ixp_rs_address, I was just looking at the template files in git, but couldn't find where it was defined.
Additionally how does your templates go if you are running 2 route servers, and does anyone use rr cluster?

Cheers
Joe

On 15/04/2013, at 5:40 PM, Joe Wooller <Joe at waia.asn.au> wrote:

> Thanks Nick, 
> 
> I am going to be running it on ubuntu precise,
> now I just need to get my head around the config structure :P
> 
> Joe
> 
> On 15/04/2013, at 5:18 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
>> On 15/04/2013 10:53, Joe Wooller wrote:
>>> I was curious as to what flavour you run BIRD on (assuming linux here)
>>> and what sysctl tweaks do you use?
>>> I am about to jump in to playing with BIRD as a replacement for our
>>> Route Servers down under, we currently use a vendor..
>>> 
>>> If there is anyone else on list using BIRD I would love to know your
>>> thoughts/experiences/etc too.
>> 
>> At the moment, we're running bird 1.3.1 on freebsd 8.2/amd64 with nothing
>> special except for a kernel which supports tcp MD5 checksums.  I.e. no
>> sysctl tweaks.  The configuration sizes are:
>> 
>>> ferris# wc bird-rs2-*.conf
>>>   2716   78577 1190603 bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv4.conf
>>>   1780   13030  122797 bird-rs2-vlan10-ipv6.conf
>>>   1345   15133  217224 bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv4.conf
>>>   1031    3227   24602 bird-rs2-vlan12-ipv6.conf
>> 
>> BIRD will also work fine on any recent version of linux.
>> 
>> This has turned out to be a very stable configuration for us.  Our BIRD
>> daemons were last restarted in August 2011 and we haven't had any problems
>> with them since then.  We'll probably do some maintenance later this year,
>> but this is just for operating system upgrades.
>> 
>> It shouldn't be necessary to do any particular tweaking because bird isn't
>> exporting any prefixes to the kernel forwarding table.  It's running as a
>> plain old daemon with a certain memory footprint and a bunch of open tcp
>> sockets.  I.e. its requirements are very modest.
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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