[ixpmanager] IXP Manager and Bird on containers / low capacity equipment

[Marco d'Itri]

On Oct 27, Mauricio Oviedo <mauricio at socium.cr> wrote:

> Hi all! Have you had any experience or recommendation on implementing 
> IXP Manager and Bird using containers, on low capacity equipment like 
> Mac Minis, Intel NUC, etc, due to very limited power availability? 
> Specially on terms of security and high availability. Good or bad 
> experiences? Considerations?
I use BIRD 1.x for one of the MINAP route servers (~80 peers) on an 
ARM board with an Allwinner A20 CPU (which is an ARMv7), no issues.
If you get a Raspberry Pi 4 then you will have plenty of power for 
a route server and something easy to replace if it breaks.

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ciao,
Marco