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BGP swiss army knife

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Introduction

ExaBGP allows engineers to control their network from commodity servers. Think of it as Software Defined Networking using BGP.

It can be used to announce ipv4, ipv6, vpn or flow routes (for DDOS protection) from its configuration file(s). ExaBGP can also transform BGP messages into friendly plain text or JSON which can be easily manipulate by scripts and report peer announcements.

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Installation

Prerequisites

ExaBGP requires python 2.6 or 2.7. It has no external dependencies.

Using pip

  1. Use pip to install the packages:

pip install -U exabgp
exabgp --help

Without installation

curl -L https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp/archive/3.4.14.tar.gz | tar zx
./exabgp-3.4.14/sbin/exabgp --help

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