FreeRouter VS BIRD

You should check out freertr.org, it is a free and open source routing process/forwarding plane that you can use for anything. The website looks like is from 1992 which I love and you can try it by telnetting or creating an SSH session to sandbox.freertr.org using any username and password combo. Source: about 1 year ago

-if you still find it interesting, follow the "activate external forwarding" part right below the one-line installer from freertr.net ... it'll enable you the libpcap dataplane... it's exactly the same forwarder engine that dpdk uses but less performant... Source: over 2 years ago

At one of my previous employers we wrote some custom software to interface with Quagga. Seems like Quagga has fallen out of favor for things like BIRD. We use our software to monitor for various things and dynamically adjust the path prepends to "shape" the traffic and cause the multihomed traffic to push to different datacenters around the globe. Source: about 1 year ago

* [1] https://bird.network.cz/ I'd actually love "enterprise raspberry", some small machine that we could shove 3-6 of them in 1RU, but once you add enterprise tax and all of the doodas to make it manageable (OOB management), it gets expensive enough to rival "just an old server". - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Currently Wireguard handles all of my VPN connections, but I used OpenVPN and IPsec in the past. I run multiple paths through my VPN network and use BGP to handle the preference and failover between them. I am using BIRD instead of the included OpenBGPD, because I also have some Ubuntu machines that also run it and wanted consistent configs between them but OpenBGPD should also work well. I have not done... Source: over 1 year ago

You can run dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF or iBGP over Wireguard. It's not built in, but that's a feature, not a bug—do one thing and do it well. I have a full mesh of Wireguard tunnels configured between home/office/datacenters/laptop, and run bird[0] on the VPN endpoints to direct traffic between them. [0] https://bird.network.cz/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I've spent a lot of hours these past few weeks in the docs and codebases for Cilium, Calico, BIRD, MetalLB, PureLB, Longhorn, CephFS, and Rook. Do I understand 100% top-to-bottom how those systems work? No. Do I understand "enough" of how those systems work to produce a good solution to the core business problem we're trying to address? Yes. Source: over 1 year ago