Hi Tim & Job
Thanks a lot for your advice. I was aware of IXP Manager and there were certain issues we faced due to which we couldn't use it when we tried last time (which was a few months ago before the latest stable release). I wish to re-visit and keep on re-visiting it until we can make it work because it does seem like a package full of everything an IXP needs. :) I checked arouteseerver project which I missed during the previous lookup. It seems really good and I ended up in building config and getting it live. For now, we got what we needed (the BGP community support as well as a way to automatically update config regularly). I will explore IXP manager again in the very near future. Thanks again for your help. And oh btw I still do not have an answer to my question on why route announcement did not go. I do have a well tested and working config which does the job but the config generated by arouteserver is like 10x bigger than original config (for 5 peers). Still trying to read and get a sense from it on what was wrong earlier. Thanks. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 2:58 AM Tim Raphael <raphael.timo...@gmail.com> wrote: > As an operator of large, established IXP I would also recommend this path. > A lot of work had gone into the likes of IXPManager and arouteserver and > they provide great value in providing secure configurations with added > features such as action communities you are after. > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > On 24 Jul 2018, at 7:05 am, Job Snijders <j...@instituut.net> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 23:00, Anurag Bhatia <m...@anuragbhatia.com> > wrote: > >> > >> We are running a small IX fabric (in Mumbai, India) and with multiple > >> route servers based on a bird. There has been a demand of support of BGP > >> communities from some of our members and I am trying to find a way to > set > >> it up in the bird. Idea is to provide a community say 0:123 where tagged > >> routes with 0:123 do not reach AS123. I am new to the bird. > > > > > > I strongly recommend to either use “arouteserver” or “IXP manager” to > > generate the BIRD configuration files on your behalf, and no type it by > > hand. > > > > Setting up a fully featured secure route server is a lot of work and > > research, I’d really recommend to leverage the work others have done in > > this problem space. I fear otherwise you may risk repeating mistakes that > > others already made. > > > > https://arouteserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > https://github.com/pierky/arouteserver > > https://www.ixpmanager.org/ > > > > And using these automated tools means less work for the IX operator. > > Turning up new peers is a breeze with both tools! > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Job > > > >> > -- Anurag Bhatia anuragbhatia.com
