Here's a quick summary for those outside of the IX community. OpenBGPd used to be the spine of the IX route server community. Once IXes like AMS-IX and DE-CIX ran into scaling issues with the number of prefix filters, a ton of IXes moved with them over to BIRD. Most IXes will never see the scale that the previously mentioned do. This was around the 2012 time-frame. Also around the 2012 time-frame INEX released v3 of IXP Manager, which took off among IXes. It automated many aspects of the IX.
Despite IXP Manager being fairly open and templated, INEX uses BIRD and therefore only produces BIRD templates. We went OpenBGPd on OpenBSD for our IXes due to OpenBSD's reputation for stability and security. Things have been manual thus far. We started a new IX earlier this year, which took advantage of the about to be released IXP Manager v4. Still only BIRD templates, however Barry O'Donovan (of INEX) mentioned that Peter Hessler had expressed interest in working on OpenBGPd templates for IXP Manager. I had reached out to him, but he's a busy guy and hasn't been able to follow up much. I figured with OpenBGPd largely resolving the prefix filter performance issues that getting templates for IXP Manager would allow IXes to find some parity in OpenBGPd with BIRD and hopefully win back market share. However, I'm not a programmer. I Google for what others have done and mash it together, at least sometimes successfully. I attempted to forge through the IXP Manager BIRD templates to convert them myself, but once I got to the meat and potatoes of the config, I was in way over my head. There's PHP logic, some template system logic, BIRD logic and no understanding from me. I came here hoping to come across someone with more time than Peter who can help me out with this. https://www.inex.ie/pipermail/ixpmanager/2017-January/000905.html http://ixp-manager.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/router-configuration.html http://ixp-manager.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features/looking-glass.html https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/17b5d36a57f40569c0da4fbb8e4f666d5e62921c/resources/views/api/v4/router https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/tree/50c3781711ed38e773f86a8f3017d669d18e464d/resources/skins/inex/api/v4/router Thanks. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP
