[169045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Octavio Alvarez)
Mon Feb 10 13:28:02 2014
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:27:34 -0800
From: Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp@alvarezp.ods.org>
To: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu>
In-Reply-To: <52F8F8CD.6090808@ramapo.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/10/2014 08:05 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote:
> The ACL is a recent addition and we can probably do away with it. I
> didn't notice a significant increase in CPU or drops since adding it.
> But we usually peak at about 200Mbps on this link. The full routing
> table is a must since we're dual homed.
You don't necessarily need the full routing table for dual home, only
for outgoing load balance. You can have BGP, filter your routes away,
just leave a default gateway and still have dual homing. Your outgoing
traffic will work as if it were active-standby, though.
My 0.02.
