<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>I'll have to figure out the reasoning we were recommended to use OpenBSD\OpenBGPd. A good friend of mine that made that recommendation is on INEX and generally gives security presentations.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL"><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/fbicon.png"></a><a href="https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb"><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/googleicon.png"></a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions"><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/linkedinicon.png"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/ICSIL"><img style="border: 0pt none;" src="http://www.ics-il.com/images/twittericon.png"></a><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Nick Hilliard" <nick@inex.ie><br><b>To: </b>"INEX IXP Manager Mailing List" <ixpmanager@inex.ie><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, April 5, 2015 5:10:44 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ixpmanager] OpenBGPd<br><br>On 05/04/2015 03:43, Mike Hammett wrote:<br>> I see IXP Manager supports OpenBGPd for route collection and AS112, but <br>> seemingly not as a route server. Why is this?<br><br>Route servers are a different kettle of fish to a standard bgp stack.<br><br>The openbsd people made a decision not to port openbgpd to any other<br>operating system, which means that you can only run openbgpd as a route<br>server if you're prepared to run openbsd.<br><br>Whether due to this or other reasons, openbgpd is no longer widely used as<br>a route server daemon. In 2009, it was running on ~35% of all euro-ix<br>member route servers. Currently that figure is ~5% and dropping, so<br>openbgpd is very much a minority platform.<br><br>There is a port dating from 2012 in freebsd, but it lacks some features<br>that you'd want for RS operation, e.g. md5 support. The port is pretty<br>hacky (large amounts of "#if 0") and very stale, so I would personally be<br>pretty uncomfortable with deploying this for a production grade service.<br><br>Nick<br>_______________________________________________<br>INEX IXP Manager mailing list<br>ixpmanager@inex.ie<br>https://www.inex.ie/mailman/listinfo/ixpmanager<br></div><br></div></body></html>