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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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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
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social
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chat what's your fave BGP software

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Joel Michael @jpm@aus.social
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@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.

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

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