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Comparing open source BGP stacks


Compare some simple performance characteristics of three Open Source BGP stacks: BIRD, FRRouting, and Gobgp.

These have different sets of features, for instance both FRR and BIRD have more full routing stacks that include other protocols. One thing specific for BIRD; for reasons I don’t understand, bgperf by default creates a separate routing table for every neighbor. I should probably also see if this gobgp vs quagga with prefix lists, slide 15 is still relevant, that Quagga/FRR doesn’t scale with the number of policy lines.

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