[169061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vlade Ristevski)
Mon Feb 10 21:05:35 2014
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:05:16 -0500
From: Vlade Ristevski <vristevs@ramapo.edu>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <52F91A16.4080100@alvarezp.ods.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Are you suggesting getting the default gateway from both providers or
getting the full table from one and using the default as a backup on the
other (7206)?
Thanks,
On 2/10/2014 1:27 PM, Octavio Alvarez wrote:
> 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.
--
Vlad
