[126577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik BGP Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri May 21 18:29:05 2010
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 15:28:15 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Choprboy <choprboy@dakotacom.net>
In-Reply-To: <201005211446.27936.choprboy@dakotacom.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
>
>
