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MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Buxton)
Fri Jun 11 05:49:00 2004

Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:48:30 +0200
From: Ben Buxton <bb@cactii.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




Has anyone done any concrete testing on how well a 7206VXR with an
NPE-300 can handle BGP MD5? The box in question has about 25 sessions
and is pushing 150Mbps, with a 75% cpu load. I'm curious to know if it's
the MD5 taking all the CPU.

Thanks,
Ben


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