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OpenBGPD 
"Go ahead. Explore."Developer(s) The OpenBSD Project Stable release 4.6 / November 1, 2009 Operating system OpenBSD, FreeBSD Type Border Gateway Protocol License ISC Website http://www.openbgpd.org OpenBGPD allows general purpose computers to be used as routers. It is a Unix system daemon that provides a free, open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol version 4. This allows a machine to exchange routes with other systems that speak BGP.
OpenBGPD is developed by Henning Brauer and Claudio Jeker as part of the OpenBSD project. OpenOSPFD, developed by Esben Nørby, is a companion daemon of OpenBGPD that implements the Open Shortest Path First protocol. The suite was developed as an alternative to packages such as Quagga, a Linux-focused routing suite which is licensed under the GPL and doesn't meet the project's requirements and quality standards[1].
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Goals
The design goals of OpenBGPD include being secure (non-exploitable), reliable, and lean enough for most users, both in size and memory usage. The configuration language should be both powerful and easy to use. It must also be able to quickly handle hundreds of thousands of table entries in a memory-efficient way.
Design
OpenBGPD consists of a parent process, a Route Decision Engine (RDE), and a Session Engine (SE). The parent process is the only part that doesn't drop privileges; the others do, in the interest of non-exploitability. The parent process cannot drop privileges, because it needs to update the routing table.[2]
See also
References
External links
- Official website
- A paper explaining OpenBGPD by Henning Brauer
- Thomas E. Spanjaard's report on OpenBGPD on NetBSD and FreeBSD
- Hasso Tepper's work on OpenBGPD on Debian GNU/Linux
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