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today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"

chat what's your fave BGP software

none of these words are in the bible

actually it looks like 29% of them _are_ in the bible. not that this helps

being horny towards me by the means of a FIB (any of the possible expansions) is explicitly encouraged

@whitequark OpenBGPD

@whitequark work uses bird, I've been meaning to try out GoBGP

@whitequark if you attempt to clone quagga as described on nongnu dot org slash quagga, you are told: "access denied or repository not exported: /quagga.git"

basically what i expect from BGP software

@whitequark when faced with this question, my usual answer is to reconsider all of my life choices that led to this point

@whitequark
Never had a chance to use it yet but was planning to do Bird for Babel based routing on my Wireguard links, it handles BGP as well and seems relatively easy to config.

@whitequark FRR and Quagga are forks of the same thing, both are kinda-sorta a bit like Cisco IOS (derogatory). BIRD is lightweight in comparison, but its config is horrible and the documentation sucks.

@whitequark more context: Quagga is a fork of Zebra that fixed a bunch of issues and added new features that the Zebra folks didn’t want to, and eventually took over from Zebra. FRR is a fork of Quagga that fixed a bunch of issues and added new features that the Quagga folks didn’t want to, however FRR is “owned” by Cumulus Linux, which is owned by NVidia, and NVidia fucked over everyone who bought Broadcomm-based switches instead of Mellanox-based switches by unexpectedly dropping support for BCM chips in the 5.0 release with no further updates ever released for 4.3.

@whitequark BIRD is very obviously an academic research project that escaped confinement, and its features (or lack thereof (complimentary)) and documentation reflects that origin.

@whitequark and in either case, if you’re running BGP without BFD, you’re going to have a Very Bad Time during link failures

@jpm i just want Rage4 AnycastIP

@whitequark I've used zebra back in the day, quagga is the modern fork

@whitequark
And the lord said "eBGP multihop for I am the lord your god and my flowspec metrics meet RPKI Peer Groups"

@dlakelan
Love thy Dynamic Neighbor.
@whitequark

@whitequark if you hear hoofbeats, think Zebras!

@whitequark am i going to hell if i understand most of this

@q3k think so

@whitequark i'm gonna manipulate your routing table with a FIB and not the way you want

@azonenberg don't threaten me with a good time!

@whitequark bird2 if you want it to work (well).

if you have to do EVPN (and then I‘ll pray for your soul), you might have to use FRR.

@manawyrm what is EVPN?

@whitequark @manawyrm

It’s the control plane for VxLAN, for announcement of MAC addresses. Overloads the tiny CPU in common switches in an promise to further scale L2 networks that had grown too big

@whitequark bird 2+. happy to give you an example config and answer questions if you'd like :)

(what are you using it for? I ask because it'll probably inform your configuration a bit)

@oddline Rage4 AnycastIP

@whitequark frr is fairly inoffensive.