RustyBGP is a BGP implementation written in Rust, designed for high performance on multicore systems. It supports most of GoBGP's features with the same gRPC API and configuration file format, so you can replace gobgpd with rustybgpd without changing your tooling or configuration.
Download the latest nightly binary (x86_64 / aarch64):
curl -LO https://github.com/osrg/rustybgp/releases/download/nightly/rustybgp-nightly-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xf rustybgp-nightly-linux-x86_64.tar.gzStart the daemon with your GoBGP configuration file:
sudo ./rustybgpd -f gobgpd.conf
Hello, RustyBGP (32 cpus)!You can manage it with the GoBGP CLI:
$ gobgp neighbor
Peer AS Up/Down State |#Received Accepted
198.51.100.2 65002 never Idle | 0 0- Route Reflector (RFC 4456)
- BGP Confederation (RFC 5065)
- Route Server (RFC 7947)
- Add-Path (RFC 7911)
- Graceful Restart (RFC 4724)
- Long-Lived Graceful Restart (RFC 9494)
- RPKI (RFC 6810, RFC 8210)
- BFD (RFC 5880 / RFC 5881)
- BMP (RFC 7854, RFC 9069) — all monitoring policies (Pre/Post/Loc-RIB/Adj-Out)
- MRT (RFC 6396)
- Policy (OpenConfig model)
- Dynamic neighbor
- Peer group
- Address families: IPv4/IPv6 unicast/multicast, L3VPN (RFC 4364), EVPN Types 1–5 (RFC 7432), BGP-LS (RFC 7752), Flowspec (RFC 8955), SR Policy (RFC 9256), MUP (draft-ietf-bess-mup-safi)
RustyBGP is Linux-only and integrates directly with the Linux kernel for FIB management instead of Zebra/FRR. The kernel integration supports:
- Route injection and withdrawal (IPv4/IPv6, VRF)
- ECMP (multiple nexthops via RTA_MULTIPATH)
- Nexthop tracking (NHT) — monitors nexthop reachability and withdraws affected routes
- Connected route redistribution — detects interface address changes and injects connected routes into BGP
The following GoBGP features are not supported:
- VPLS
- MPLS VPN Multicast
- EVPN control plane (RT-based MAC-VRF import/export; Types 1–5 NLRI relay is supported)
Contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build, test, and submit patches.