Sorry, I never doubted that there are large organizations that run OpenBGPD -- it's just that I, myself, have never personally encountered one (meaningless, I k

Sorry, I never doubted that there are large organizations that run OpenBGPD -- it's just that I, myself, have never personally encountered one (meaningless, I know). I do know that it's used quite often as a route server/reflector at various IXPs (and I may be standing up an instance to do just that in the near future as well) as well as a looking glass. I've managed routers from most of the large manufacturers (Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, HP/H3C, ALU, Mikrotik) and I took a good hard look at OpenBGPD a while back for a customer project so I am aware that it is quite feature-rich and capable and I certainly didn't intend to imply (if it came across that way) that it's not. Really, the thing that I took issue with was: > OpenBSD's OpenBGPD responsible for 30% of worldwide BGP communication It was followed up with: > Correction: 20% of ISPs using OpenBGPD That claim may very well be technically correct, but it strikes me as similar to, e.g., someone claiming that 90% of users on the Internet "use Linux" simply because their traffic may have {passed through|been directed to} a {router|server|firewall} that runs Linux.