Full routes is far from overrated. You can't run uRPF without full routes. You can't have proper traffic flow data without full routes.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Robertson" <br...@pooh.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 11:41:39 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] rb1100ahx2 bgp load Also, running full routes is somewhat overrated. You can get the same failover and 95% of the same balancing with some clever filters. I usually go ahead and have them feed me full routes, but then I filter them down to just a few, making sure each upstream gets its own routes. On 5/9/17 4:20 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I hear there are some versions better than others in terms of BGP performance, but Mikrotik BGP really belongs on x86 boxes until v7 is out. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "can...@believewireless.net" <p...@believewireless.net> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Tuesday, May 9, 2017 5:59:50 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] rb1100ahx2 bgp load Take a look at /tool profile (on in Winbox) to see where the CPU load is going. It is probably going to routing for BGP but you can verify it here. Is anything else running on the router? OSPF, VPN, PPPoE, etc? Where BGP really matters is when you lose one of your peers and it goes through and updates the tables. On lower powered boxes, this will peg the CPU and can cause OSPF flaps, dropped packets and other issues. On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Steve Jones < thatoneguyst...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> We turned up BGP on one of our routers today, 2 peers, full routes, this is just one upstream, we will be turning up bgp with another provider shortly elsewhere on the network, I assume those tables will make their way to this router. load averaged 4-12% prior to turning up BGP now its running 60-90, even occasionally pegged is this a matter of tuning BGP and ROS packages, or is this just too much for the router? this is only at 150mbps, as we increase capacity I feel we have already scaled out of this router if its not a misconfiguration of something on my end Inline image 1 </blockquote>
