Tutorial: Introduction to BGP http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/abstracts.php?pt=MTQ0MSZuYW5vZzQ3&nm=nanog47 Tutorial: BGP 102 http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog48/abstracts.php?pt=MTUyMiZuYW5vZzQ4&nm=nanog48 http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:BGP_Case_Studies On 2010-05-21 14:46, Choprboy wrote:
On Friday 21 May 2010 05:16, Lorell Hathcock wrote:
I am inheriting a WISP network with Mikrotik equipment throughout. One of my first duties is to make the network multihomed. We have our first internet connection at one location and our second internet connection will be delivered at a second location in a week or so. [snip] My question is about BGP on the Mikrotik platform. The guy who I am supplanting swears that we are supposed to be bringing the second internet link to the same place as the first internet link for BGP to work properly. Obviously that is not true with major brand routers
And it is not true with Mikrotik either... I work for a WISP that uses Mikrotik almost exclusively, everything from our core to customer CPEs. We have multiple Mikrotik edge routers at diverse locations, with 200+Mbs internet connections thru different providers, all running full BGP feeds, and all sharing those feeds between each other. A simple 1U box with a good MB, 1-2GB RAM, flash drive for booting, and good multi-port Gb ethernet cards for each is all that is needed.
We are a small ISP by most standards, but we have had no problem running 180Mbs and 40,000pps in/out on just one of our edges, while carrying on with multiple BGP feeds and exchange between our internal routers.
Adrian