> > I don't know what's common right this minute (as I haven't been shopping > for routers for a bit), but for example, all the Juniper MXes outside of > the MX80 have been competent-to-beefy Intel CPUs. I don't think the > routers likely to be running a lot of BGP are going to be using some > low-end CPU.
Anything reasonably newer on MX has Haswell or Icy Lakes in them, and multicore. But even that Ford Model T of an MX80 wouldn't flinch at MD5 operations. On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM Chris Adams via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote: > Once upon a time, [email protected] <[email protected]> said: > > A hash is also way faster than 5ms to compute. I suggest doing your own > benchmark. Run it on an old raspberry pi or one of Amazon's cheapest ARM > servers to be sure it's comparable to typical router CPU hardware. > > I don't know what's common right this minute (as I haven't been shopping > for routers for a bit), but for example, all the Juniper MXes outside of > the MX80 have been competent-to-beefy Intel CPUs. I don't think the > routers likely to be running a lot of BGP are going to be using some > low-end CPU. > -- > Chris Adams <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > NANOG mailing list > > https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RI46RBUWSGZU7CWSCOPIB6SQZNWIIJYE/ > _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BE3UNLEPJKFSQCIEDAERG4DNEVVY47UW/
