[180011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Odintsov)
Tue May 19 15:57:14 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <DBA366A0-DC08-423C-8898-D420D667FD71@beckman.org>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 22:54:58 +0300
From: Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov@gmail.com>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
What about L3 switches? You could receive full BGP table with Linux
BOX with ExaBGP, parse it and feed to L3 switch.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
> I've seen serious, unusual performance bottlenecks in Mikrotik CCR, in so=
me cases not even achieving a gigabit speeds on 10G interfaces. Performance=
drops more rapidly then Cisco with smaller packet sizes.
>
> -mel beckman
>
>> On May 19, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists@mtin.net> wrot=
e:
>>
>> I second the Mikrotik recommendation. You don=E2=80=99t get support lik=
e you would with Cisco but it=E2=80=99s a solid product.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>>
>>
>> Justin Wilson j2sw@mtin.net
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>>> On May 19, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Keefe John <keefe-af@ethoplex.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For about $1000 you could get a Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM but it only h=
as 2 SFP+ ports.
>>>
>>> http://routerboard.com/CCR1036-8G-2SplusEM
>>>
>>> Keefe
>>>
>>> On 5/19/2015 3:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>>>>> How cheap is cheap and what performance numbers are you looking for?
>>>>>
>>>>> About as cheap as you can get:
>>>>>
>>>>> For about $3,000 you can build a Supermicro OEM system with an 8-core=
Xeon
>>>>> E5 V3 and 4-port 10G Intel SFP+ NIC with 8G of RAM running VyOS. The=
pro
>>>>> is that BGP convergence time will be good (better than a 7200 VXR), a=
nd
>>>>> number of tables likely won't be a concern since RAM is cheap. The c=
on is
>>>>> that you're not doing things in hardware, so you'll have higher laten=
cy,
>>>>> and your PPS will be lower.
>>>> What 8 core Xeon E5 v3 would that be? The 26xx's are hideously pricey=
,
>>>> and for a router, you're probably better off with something like a
>>>> Supermicro X10SRn fsvo "n" with a Xeon E5-1650v3. Board is typically
>>>> around $300, 1650 is around $550, so total cost I'm guessing closer to
>>>> $1500-$2000 that route.
>>>>
>>>> The edge you get there is the higher clock on the CPU. Only six cores
>>>> and only 15M cache, but 3.5GHz. The E5-2643v3 is three times the cost
>>>> for very similar performance specs. Costwise, E5 single socket is the
>>>> way to go unless you *need* more.
>>>>
>>>> ... JG
>>
--=20
Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
