[71244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Fri Jun 11 13:23:45 2004
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:10:24 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Ben Buxton <bb@cactii.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040611094829.GA22990@cactii.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
sh proc cpu should be able to tell you where the load is..
i have a 7206, about 130 bgp sessions (445000 paths) .. not much cpu being used,
BGP scanner is the larges with a 5% 1min average
Steve
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ben Buxton wrote:
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Ben
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