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I am not sure anyone is using bird, but quagga works fine for advertising a prefix.
I use bird for small announces and to manage the blackholing community and it works fine...
+1 for quagga
I heard bird should be more stable for handling the whole routing table (http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof15/Preston-Routeserver.pdf), but Quagga is working here totally fine, too.
If you prefer a Cisco-like interface / configuration go for Quagga, what I also like with Quagga, changes are "live", you don't have to restart it every time.
You don't need "the whole routing table" for anycast. In fact you don't need to receive any prefixes at all. You only need to announce your prefix.
But is it possible on an openvz Virt server? Is there anything way special other then the main config of quagga or bird?
@Mun with OpenVZ veth device has to be used, it will not work with the default venet, because a subnet cannot be routed to you then.
I assume veth has to be done by the provider.
@Mun of course.
Well, no matter what virtualization technology is used, or even if it's a dedicated server and not a VPS the provider has to agree to speak BGP with you and accept and route your prefix. That's how anycast works.
Yeah I know, just be nice to learn and actually setup.
Once ARIN drops pricing (July?) I think getting your own /22 and doing this will be much more attainable ! Looking forward to doing this myself!
You think they are going to drop prices? I was thinking I would just have to wait for ipv6 and do anycast on that.
And once pigs learn to fly... ;-)
Pretty sure it is July
I can't imagine ARIN lowering prices. I can only imagine them rising the prices.
Whare have you read about this price drop?
@rds100 https://www.arin.net/fees/pending_fee_schedule.html#allocations
@Fliphost interesting, RIPE last year changed from "pay based on the size of the LIR" to "everyone pays the same". ARIN moves in the opposite direction.
@rds100
Basically ARIN FTW
@rds100 pigs will fly in july!
And while they're doing that, everyone should get ip space while they can, because with the new structure I suspect what little arin has left will be going extra fast.
Perhaps an ingenious plot to speed ipv6 adoption...
If you think about it, they go in the right direction: attract a lot of new small "clients" so that when the depletion is complete and there will be only ipv6 to assign (as is in EU) they can spread arin expenses over a larger base ;-)