Establishing BGP connections with yabgp

Yabgp is a Python implementation for BGP protocol that supports establishing BGP connections from various routers. It can be used for various advanced use cases such as future analysis. In this recipe, we will install yabgp using virtualenv virtual environment for Python programs.

Getting ready

First, get the sources of yabgp:

$ git clone https://github.com/smartbgp/yabgp

Now to build yabgp:

$ cd yabgp

Install the requirements following this command, and observe the following logs:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt..Successfully installed Twisted Flask Flask-HTTPAuth netaddr zope.interface Werkzeug Jinja2 itsdangerous MarkupSafeCleaning up...

Now you may confirm the correct installation of yabgpd by using the following command:

$ cd bin$ python yabgpd -h

This will output detailed help information on yabgpd.

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