My experience tells me Martins direction is a good one. You would be surprised to learn how much time already went into whats out there that people trust now.
Besides - it has very limited marketing appeal. The IXs number is small. The big ones already have something working well. I wouldn't implement something new. When I chose, I went for something a big network ran for years. As a result it was reliable and easy to maintain. Had few and simple problems. Simply ran 2 and had people get a session with both. No one ever lost routes when I took one down to upgrade - or when we had a hardware failure. Thank You Bob Evans CTO > On Mon, 4 May 2015, Sebastian Spies wrote: >> sorry, for the double post. dmarc fuckup... >> >> Hey there, >> >> considering the state of this discussion, BIRD seems to be the only >> scalable solution to be used as a route server at IXPs. I have built a >> large code base around BGP for the hoofprints project [1] and BRITE [2] >> and would enjoy building another state-of-the-art open-source >> route-server implementation for IXPs. Would you be so kind to send me >> your feedback on this idea? Do you think, it makes sense to pursue such >> a project or is it not relevant enough for you? > > How about (instead of another implementation) helping one of the existing > projects? > Writing another implementation is easy. Keeping it up to date, testing > it and supporting it over multiple years is what I would worry about. > > I would *strongly* suggest to solve that issue first before starting > on another implementation. > > - Martin >
