yabgp 0.1.7

Yet Another Border Gateway Protocol Python Implementation

What is yabgp?

YABGP is a yet another Python implementation for BGP Protocol. It can be used to establish BGP connections with all kinds of routers (include real Cisco/HuaWei/Juniper routers and some router simulators like GNS3) and receive/parse BGP messages for future analysis.

Support sending BGP messages(route refresh/update) to the peer through RESTful API. YABGP can’t send any BGP update messages by itself, it’s just a agent, so there can be many agents and they can be controlled by a contoller.

We write it in strict accordance with the specifications of RFCs.

This software can be used on Linux/Unix, Mac OS and Windows systems.

Features

• It can establish BGP session based on IPv4 address (TCP Layer) in active mode(as TCP client);

• Support TCP MD5 authentication(IPv4 and does not support Windows now);

• BGP capabilities support: 4 Bytes ASN, Route Refresh(Cisco Route Refresh), Add Path send/receive;

• Address family support: IPv4 unicast, IPv4 Flowspec(limited),IPv6 unicast;

• Decode all BGP messages to json format and write files to disk(configurable);

• Support basic RESTFUL API for getting running information and sending BGP messages.

Quick Start

We recommend run yabgp through python virtual-env from source code or pip install

Use yabgp from source code:

$ virtualenv yabgp-virl
$ source yabgp-virl/bin/activate
$ git clone https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp
$ cd yabgp
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ cd bin
$ python yabgpd -h

Use pip install

$ virtualenv yabgp-virl
$ source yabgp-virl/bin/activate
$ pip install yabgp
$ which yabgpd
/home/yabgp/yabgp-virl/bin/yabgpd
$ yabgpd -h

For example:

$ yabgpd --bgp-local_addr=1.1.1.1 --bgp-local_as=65001 --bgp-remote_addr=1.1.1.2 --bgp-remote_as=65001 --bgp-md5=test --config-file=../etc/yabgp/yabgp.ini

BGP message example:

in yabgp.ini, you can point out if you want to store the parsing BGP message to local disk and where you want to put them in.

Documentation

More information please see the documentation http://yabgp.readthedocs.org

Support

Send email to [e-mail], or use GitHub issue system.

TODO

• support more address family (VPNv4, VPNv6, etc.)

• more unittest

• others

Contribute

Please create Github Pull Request https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp/pulls

More details please read HACKING.rst.

Thanks

For core files like fsm, protocol, we copy some of the code from https://github.com/wikimedia/PyBal/blob/master/pybal/bgp.py,

and message parsing, we reference from https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp