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