Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-12, Peter Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OpenBSD also won't let you add routes > where the nexthop is not locally reachable. Doesn't "nexthop qualify via" help this? If set to bgp, bgpd(8) may use BGP routes to verify nexthops.

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-05-12, Peter Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the replies so far. bgpd can handle full tables. This means that > as of today ~251K prefixes demonstrably work but most of these are from > peers (iBGP or eBGP) I'm interested in known limitations/expected gotchas on > locally or

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Bristow
> Well, bgpd has no problem handing out a full route table to many clients. > Again I know it can handle lots of sessions, and lots of routes over those sessions it's getting them into bgp. > > If these are co-lo servers, wouldn't you just want to have one 'network > inet static set { blah }'

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Well, bgpd has no problem handing out a full route table to many clients. If these are co-lo servers, wouldn't you just want to have one 'network inet static set { blah }' line and then add the 50K routes as static routes in the kernel? Peter Bristow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the re

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Bristow
Thanks for the replies so far. bgpd can handle full tables. This means that as of today ~251K prefixes demonstrably work but most of these are from peers (iBGP or eBGP) I'm interested in known limitations/expected gotchas on locally originating 50k prefixes.50K lines of network 92.48.111.0/26 set

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Plenty of people, including myself, are using bgpd to manage full route tables (> 230K routes, or even more these days) from multiple providers and/or to multiple customers and have been for years. Some people are using it at exchange points with dozens or hundreds of peers. At close to 5 year

Re: Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Peter Bristow wrote: Hi, Are there any known limitations or expected gotchas with originating a large number of routes with OpenBGPD? I'm thinking in the order of tens of thousands of routes. I've done a basic 'stress' test with 100,000 routes and nothing immediately broke. The idea is to route b

Originating large numbers of routes with bgpd

2008-05-12 Thread Peter Bristow
Hi, Are there any known limitations or expected gotchas with originating a large number of routes with OpenBGPD? I'm thinking in the order of tens of thousands of routes. I've done a basic 'stress' test with 100,000 routes and nothing immediately broke. The idea is to route blocks of IP space to se