YABGP
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YABGP
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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 controller.
We write it in strict accordance with the specifications of RFCs.
This software can be used on Linux/Unix, Mac OS and Windows systems. Python >= 3.13 required.
TCP MD5 authentication is only supported on Linux.
Features
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- It can establish BGP session based on IPv4 address (TCP Layer) in
active mode(as TCP client);
- Support TCP MD5 authentication(IPv4 only);
- 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
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**Using uv (recommended):**
.. code:: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp
$ cd yabgp
$ uv sync
$ uv run yabgpd -h
**Using pip:**
.. code:: bash
$ pip install yabgp
$ yabgpd -h
**Using Docker:**
.. code:: bash
$ 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
**Example:**
.. code:: bash
$ 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
Documentation
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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
Send email to xiaoquwl@gmail.com, 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
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