Well it's painful on my x86 machine, but I've never really been a problem.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaus...@gmail.com> wrote: > RAM is a consideration. > > It's convergence time primarily, and route table maintenance, that will be > considerably more rapid on x86 due to BGP being a single core process. > > I have heard of people happily running two full tables on CCR1016. I would > be OK with this as long it were one of a pair of edge routers, as > secondary, the primary being either x86 or bigger iron, depending on > bandwidth requirements. > > YMMV. It's fairly easy to determine what your baseline CPU level would be > if you do a full table peering internally for testing. I see about 40% > under profile on a CCR1009 with a single full table. (Adds and removes > being fairly slow… try searching the route table for a single route via the > CLI, and you'll see how painful this is!) > > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > wrote: > >> Is your preference due to stability or speed of peer turn up? I guess I >> should have specified - I'm running full tables (two peers). >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 <(937)%20552-2340> >> Direct: 937-552-2343 <(937)%20552-2343> >> 1100 Wayne St >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Suite 1337 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >> Troy, OH 45373 >> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >> >> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Jeremy Austin <jhaus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> If you're running multiple full tables, Mikrotik on x86 will have better >>> performance, typically, than on a CCR. I have run full tables on as small >>> as a CCR1009 with few issues, but prefer x86. >>> >>> For a few thousand routes, as in an IGP, BGP on CCR is completely fine. >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Josh Luthman via Mikrotik-users < >>> mikrotik-users@wispa.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I remember the CCR had a lot of issues running BGP and would crash. >>>> I'm not worried about it takes a couple of minutes to build routes when it >>>> first boots up. Are the issues resolved at this point? >>>> >>>> I'm running an older x86 box for BGP and want to replace the Powercode >>>> BMU (x86) with a more power efficient unit, possibly a second CCR? Does >>>> this sound like a good idea at this point or will I have Mikrotik >>>> problems? Is there something better than the CCR for these jobs? >>>> >>>> Josh Luthman >>>> Office: 937-552-2340 <(937)%20552-2340> >>>> Direct: 937-552-2343 <(937)%20552-2343> >>>> 1100 Wayne St >>>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >>>> Suite 1337 >>>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >>>> Troy, OH 45373 >>>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=1100+Wayne+St+Suite+1337+Troy,+OH+45373&entry=gmail&source=g> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mikrotik-users mailing list >>>> Mikrotik-users@wispa.org >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik-users >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeremy Austin >>> jhaus...@gmail.com >>> >>> (907) 895-2311 office >>> (907) 803-5422 cell >>> >>> Heritage NetWorks <https://heritagenet.works/> - Whitestone Power & >>> Communications - Vertical Broadband, LLC <http://verticalbroadband.com/> >>> >> >> > > > -- > Jeremy Austin > jhaus...@gmail.com > > (907) 895-2311 office > (907) 803-5422 cell > > Heritage NetWorks <https://heritagenet.works/> - Whitestone Power & > Communications - Vertical Broadband, LLC <http://verticalbroadband.com/> >
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