[167692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geraint Jones)
Fri Dec 27 04:03:17 2013
In-Reply-To: <F02A0931E2E6254680832D6A24940C2D0C4694A2@hx01.srv.hotze.com>
From: Geraint Jones <geraint@koding.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 22:02:45 +1300
To: Martin Hotze <m.hotze@hotze.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am going to be deploying 4 as edge routers in the next few weeks, each wil=
l have 1 or 2 full tables plus partial IX tables. So I should have some empi=
rical info soon.
They will be doing eBGP to upstreams and iBGP/OSPF internally. I went with t=
he 16gb RAM models.
However these boxes are basically Linux running on top of tilera CPUs, in te=
rms of throughput as long as everything stays on the fastpath they have no i=
ssues doing wire speed on all ports, however the moment you add a firewall r=
ule or the like they drop to 1.5gbps.=20
> On 27/12/2013, at 9:47 pm, Martin Hotze <m.hotze@hotze.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> looking at the specs of Mikrotik Cloud Core Routers it seems to be to good=
to be true [1] having so much bang for the bucks. So virtually all smaller I=
SPs would drop their CISCO gear for Mikrotik Routerboards.
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> We are using a handful of Mikrotik boxes, but on a much lower network leve=
l (splitting networks; low end router behind ADSL modem, ...). We're happy w=
ith them.
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> So I am asking for real life experience and not lab values with Mikrotik C=
loud Core Routers and BGP. How good can they handle full tables and a bunch o=
f peering sessions? How good does the box react when adding filters (during a=
ttacks)? Reloading the table? etc. etc.
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> I am looking for _real_ _life_ values compared to a CISCO NPE-G2. Please t=
ell me/us from your first hand experience.
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> Thanks!
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> greetings, Martin
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> [1] If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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