On 11/18/17 17:55, mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: > Howdy! > > Looking to replace some edge routers for my small ISP. With all the various > SDN platforms available along with various choices of bare-metal hardware > platforms, im thinking i may go this route instead of going with > Cisco/Juniper/Etc. > > I only need a handful of 10G uplinks. The SuperMicro SSE-G3648B and the > Penguin Arctica Network switches appear to fit my needs. > > I am eyeing Cumulus Linux to run on these, but that isn’t set in stone. > > They’ll likely be getting 2 full tables along with some peers. afaik if these are consistent with other t2/tomahawk/helix switches they're roughly 200K alpm routes installed or as few as 16K. if you install selected routes and otherwise default or this is a peering only router, that can get you pretty far but it's not a full table by any means.
https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/display/DOCS/Routing (cumulous details on route table size and alpm routes) > Has anyone run SuperMicro or Penguin hardware with Cumulus in this type of > scenario? > > What were your experiences? How is BGP convergence time on x86 hardware these > days? control plane on the switches mentioned about is 2GB of ram and a dual core atom, so it's fine more or less for a datacenter TOR. It's not particularly powerful. I find out particular tooling doesn't run that well in 4GB any more so your milage may vary. the supermicro should bear a striking resemblance to the dell 3048 that was splayed open here http://eoinpk.blogspot.com/2015/08/under-hood-of-dell-s3048-on.html > > Any insight would be appreciated. > > Thank You, > Mike >
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