I don't know what's common right this minute (as I haven't been shopping for routers for a bit), but for example, all the Juniper MXes outside of the MX80 have been competent-to-beefy Intel CPUs. I don't think the routers likely to be running a lot of BGP are going to be using some low-end CPU.
Anything reasonably newer on MX has Haswell or Icy Lakes in them, and multicore. But even that Ford Model T of an MX80 wouldn't flinch at MD5 operations. On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM Chris Adams via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Once upon a time, nanog@immibis.com <nanog@immibis.com> said:
A hash is also way faster than 5ms to compute. I suggest doing your own benchmark. Run it on an old raspberry pi or one of Amazon's cheapest ARM servers to be sure it's comparable to typical router CPU hardware.
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