Hi, In general, how is a BGP implementation evaluated/benchmarked by an operator? Are there any well-known figures relating to memory-consumption, speed of convergence, scalability etc. that one can benchmark with? There was a write-up on Data Comm magazine testing Juniper's M40 BGP. I haven't seen much more than that - especially test procedures used to compare various vendor implementations. Thanks in advance, -Sathya
Are there any well-known figures relating to memory-consumption, speed of convergence, scalability etc. that one can benchmark with? Some standardization work for BGP convergence is going on BMWG of IETF. http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-bgpbas-01.txt They consider only single device convergence and mostly external measurements. I have found the route flap test useful.
It also has a companion terminology document. (http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-03.txt) If you are more particular on performance in the forwarding plane, consider RFC 2544. I have not gone through the RFC though(http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
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