Plenty of people, including myself, are using bgpd to manage full route tables (> 230K routes, or even more these days) from multiple providers and/or to multiple customers and have been for years.  Some people are using it at exchange points with dozens or hundreds of peers.  At close to 5 years age, it's considered a very stable piece of software, and has been for some time.

Peter Bristow [pete.bristow@gmail.com] wrote:
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> Hi,
> Are there any known limitations or expected gotchas with originating a large
> number of routes with OpenBGPD?
> I'm thinking in the order of tens of thousands of routes. I've done a basic
> 'stress' test with 100,000 routes and nothing
> immediately broke. The idea is to route blocks of IP space to servers in a
> server farm.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> 
> Pete Bristow

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