Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

It's a couple year old Xeon running vSphere. 

Once I get some other migrations done, I'll load either vSphere or Proxmox onto the hardware running the Vyatta 
firewall now and run a CHR there as well for a second upstream. I'm not yet sure what the underlying hardware is for 
that one. 

My x86 ROS boxes load full tables in ~30 seconds and maintain hardly any CPU core usage when pulling in updates. 

I've seen CCRs take 10 minutes to receive and then change routing accordingly for BGP updates (Cogent, HE and several 
IX peers). 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "mike lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:35:48 PM 
Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption 

What hardware you running the CHR on? 

> On Dec 5, 2017, at 10:29, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote: 
>
> I'm replacing an M10i with a CHR. 
>
> I hope you have a newer RE so that you don't have worse BGP convergence than a CCR. 
>
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> ----- 
> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
> http://www.ics-il.com 
>
> Midwest-IX 
> http://www.midwest-ix.com 
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
>
> From: "mike lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com> 
> To: tony () wicks co nz 
> Cc: nanog () nanog org 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:11:27 PM 
> Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption 
>
> Unfortunately, yes. Thats why two Juniper M7is just arrived on my doorstep yesterday... 
>
> > On Dec 5, 2017, at 10:10, <tony () wicks co nz> <tony () wicks co nz> wrote: 
> >
> > Is that actually still true nowadays ? Of course there is always the option of running RouterOS on an X86 for an 
> > effective solution as well. 
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: mike.lyon () gmail com [mailto:mike.lyon () gmail com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 7:07 AM 
> > To: tony () wicks co nz 
> > Cc: nanog () nanog org 
> > Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption 
> >
> > Bad thing about the CCRs is that their BGP process is single threaded. So even though it has a bunch of cores, it 
> > doesn’t utilize them for BGP. 
> >
> > -Mike