✧✦Catherine✦✧
@whitequark@mastodon.social
#1 public
replies:
#2
today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"
![Establish BGP session and configure routing
To use the anycast addresses, you need to establish a BGP session. A specific node can be connected to a single AnycastIP router (IPv4 and IPv6 session) at a given time. You can have multiple nodes per region - all our routers support ECMP.
[1. Install desired routing software (for example, FRRouting, BIRD, Quagga, ExaBGP etc.)]
2. Get the IP addresses of our router in the given region (see below) and configure BGP sessions using the following details](https://i.ap.sip.sh/cache/media_attachments/files/115/312/458/563/422/293/original/e2ce6bc7f9f04053.png)
today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"
chat what's your fave BGP software
@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