Topic of Presentation: Using route servers

Language: English

Ela Jasinska has been a Network Engineer at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange since 2007. Before that she worked for a year on developing sFlow software, which AMS-IX uses as a service for its members. Elzbieta has been involved with Internet technology since 2005, when she voluntarily started to build up conference networks for > 3500 attendees. Next to that she is a student at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she is working on her Master’s degree in Computer Science.

Abstract: Route servers simplify the setup and lower the barrier for new parties to connect at an Internet exchange point. By maintaining only one BGP session per participant and distributing everyone’s prefixes they provide an essential service for their participants. Following up on AMS-IX’s report, on moving from Quagga to OpenBGPD, at PLNOG3, this presentation will describe further testing performed on three route server implementations: Quagga, BIRD and OpenBGPD, as well as outline AMS-IX’s experiences with OpenBGPD as a production route server.