Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-25 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 25/01/2012 01:20, Jake Khuon wrote: Do you know if it supports things like ECMP with filtering? The config guide doesn't seem to indicate. I don't know if this has been implemented. To be honest, though, if you're going to be using ecmp, you're probably not going to be using an mlp route

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 23/01/2012 22:12, Piotr Wojciechowski wrote: software redundancy. Not to mention good price to performance ratio especially if you are planning to deploy ASR1001 which performance can be upgraded using license while your network is growing. Table size depends on how much DRAM you put in it.

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Aivars
I would like to admit that RR (route reflector) is not the same feature as RS (route server). Which one is actually needed? Aivars On 1/23/12 18:45 , Michael Lambert wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could comment on experiences (production or otherwise) with BGP route server

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Tinka
On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 09:14:05 PM Aivars wrote: I would like to admit that RR (route reflector) is not the same feature as RS (route server). Which one is actually needed? The OP is looking for route server functionality. It just came to IOS XE 3.3S:

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Jake Khuon
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 15:14 +0200, Aivars wrote: I would like to admit that RR (route reflector) is not the same feature as RS (route server). Which one is actually needed? Also be aware that single-view route-server is quite a different beast than multi-view route-server. The latter case

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 24/01/2012 16:50, Jake Khuon wrote: Also be aware that single-view route-server is quite a different beast than multi-view route-server. The latter case isn't handled by a traditional router (at least not well) and would typically be addressed via software routers running on a generic unix

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:12:57PM +0100, Piotr Wojciechowski wrote: All other solutions are just software running on Linux or Unix systems so they are dependent on hardware platform performance and stability. Not really good option imo. This very much sounds like IOS XE :-) (the ASR

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 24/01/2012 21:27, Gert Doering wrote: If you have just untagged IPv4/IPv6 routes, bird is likely to be MUCH more scalable than anything $C or $J can offer - and given the torture bird regularily gets from the big exchange points using it as route server, it should be at least as stable as

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Michael Lambert
On 24 Jan 2012, at 17:06, Nick Hilliard wrote: Bird is extremely cool, no doubt about it. I use it for route servers at INEX and it is rock solid with lots of yummy features, including a delicious configuration syntax. Internally, it has a much better memory architecture / implementation

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-24 Thread Jake Khuon
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 19:50 +, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 24/01/2012 16:50, Jake Khuon wrote: Also be aware that single-view route-server is quite a different beast than multi-view route-server. The latter case isn't handled by a traditional router (at least not well) and would typically

[c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-23 Thread Michael Lambert
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could comment on experiences (production or otherwise) with BGP route server functionality on the ASR1000 series/IOS-XE. Can you offer any comparisons (stability, configuration, table sizes, etc) between it and the open-source implementations (quagga, BIRD,

Re: [c-nsp] ASR as BGP Route Server

2012-01-23 Thread Piotr Wojciechowski
On 1/23/12 18:45 , Michael Lambert wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anyone could comment on experiences (production or otherwise) with BGP route server functionality on the ASR1000 series/IOS-XE. Can you offer any comparisons (stability, configuration, table sizes, etc) between it and