Livingston has serious problems with its BGP code and has since it was first available (going on six months now)
Huh... Uhh I am not aware of this..
I'd be curious about how many updates/second this box can handle while forwarding across all interfaces at line rate, and how quickly from the receipt of an update switching to another path the forwarding engine begins sending traffic along that path, and how many christmas-tree packets flowing at line rates to a series of changing destinations are lost or mis-forwarded.
Well I know that on the IRX platform the router is not fast enough to deal with light ammounts of updates with 5 or 6 sessions and still forward packets.. I am told the on the PM3's that is handles it just fine.. The IRX is old 3 years or so 386DX-40 based where the PM3 is 486/66 For instance when we reset a IBGP session when the session establishes when loading the routes (15-20k) it will stop forwarding for 5-10 sec.
I would be interested in actual "it works/it doesn't" commentary (and possible explanation of "it doesn't", if that's the case) involving this particular router from some sizeable ISP or other. Learning from vendor mistakes is of use to many of us.
It works.. I am very happy with it.. On the IRX platform it is not ment as a backbone router but for customer connections it works great. We have a few of them that are not accepting BGP routes but are anouncing customer routes.. It seems to work real well. I hope to get a PM3 in here to find out how well it works.. If the performance is as good as I have heard and the fact that I can fit 6-8 full views in 16 MB of ram... we might have a winner for some of our smaller POP's.. Plus where space is not a big problem the IRX is a great price for a 2 T1 2 56k port router for customer connects.. <Whole bunch of Multicast USENET stuff cut> ----------------------------------------------------------- James 'J.D.' Butt Voice 319.557.8463 Network Engineer pager 319.557.6347 MidWest Communications, Inc. fax 319.557.9771 241 Main St. noc@mwci.net Dubuque, IA 52001 jbutt@mwci.net ----------------------------------------------------------- "I used up all my sick days... so I'm calling in dead" "Lets fight against continental drift!"