yabgp 0.5.0

Yet Another Border Gateway Protocol Python Implementation

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YABGP

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/IPv6 unicast

  • IPv4/IPv6 Labeled Unicast

  • IPv4 Flowspec(limited)

  • IPv4 SR Policy(draft-previdi-idr-segment-routing-te-policy-07)

  • IPv4/IPv6 MPLSVPN

  • EVPN (partially supported)

• Decode all BGP messages to json format and write them into files in local 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-afi_safi=ipv4

Use Docker container

$ docker run -it smartbgp/yabgp:latest --bgp-afi_safi=ipv4 --bgp-local_as=65022 --bgp-remote_addr=10.75.44.219 --bgp-remote_as=65022

More docker image tags, please reference https://hub.docker.com/r/smartbgp/yabgp/tags/

Documentation

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

Related Projects

Routewatch brings automated alerting to YABGP. https://github.com/nerdalize/routewatch

A BGP update generator based on YaBGP https://github.com/trungdtbk/bgp-update-gen

Support

Please join our Slack http://smartbgp.slack.com/ for questions, discussion, suggestions, etc

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

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