bgp

Compare Quagga to XORP

What do you think of Quagga compared to XORP as a dynamic software routing engine? What are the technical merits of each engine comparatively? Additionally, what do most people think of them from a programming view. Who has manipulated networks using these enginers? I was wondering from an OSPF, routing, BGP protocol user's perpspective....

What does BGP Path Attribute Type 18 refer to?

Does anyone know what Path Attribute Type 18 refers to and how to parse it? The best I can understand is that it is a new AGGREGATOR (type 7) and I'm assuming that it's reading the new AS32 format, but that's not cutting it because I can't parse this packet. Is there an RFC that describes how this works...is it something special that C...

Is it possible to implement load balancing using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)?

Can I implement load balancing in BGP? ...

redistribute BGP routes in OSPF

Consider two routers A & B. Both of them run eBGP for connecting to ISP and also run OSPF inside the cloud. Both A&B also run iBGP and are connected in an internal iBGP mesh. How suppose prefix P1 is received at both A & B (eBGP). They run the bgp process as: router bgp 747 neighbor xxxx route-map ISP-ROUTES-IN route-map ...