Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-28 Thread Harry Reynolds
Savola Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960 On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:57:41PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > There are 2 levels where indirect next-hop can be used, one is on > > the RE to speed up RIB converge

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Mark Tinka > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:47:30 +0800 > Sender: juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net > > On Monday 28 September 2009 12:25:43 am Derick Winkworth > wrote: > > > 2) We put no stock in vendor testing from anyone, > > including Juniper. When you start poking and prodding > > f

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday 28 September 2009 12:25:43 am Derick Winkworth wrote: > 2) We put no stock in vendor testing from anyone, > including Juniper. When you start poking and prodding > for details, you start hearing.. "Well this is the > thing..." and "About that, yeah, basically that isn't > exactly..." a

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Derick Winkworth
__ From: Stefan Fouant To: mti...@globaltransit.net Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:58:08 AM Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ste

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Fouant
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: > You'd think that eventually Cisco would realize the gig was up, and at > least get some other hired guns to do their testing in the future so they > could keep the charade going for a few more years. > One other thing I'd like to point ou

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Fouant
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Mark Tinka wrote: > > I've known to never implicitly trust anything that comes out > of Miercom's mouth, particularly if Cisco are running the > test. > You'd think that eventually Cisco would realize the gig was up, and at least get some other hired guns to do the

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Mark Tinka
On Thursday 24 September 2009 01:46:01 pm Jeff Tantsura wrote: > Would be interesting to see Juniper's reaction on > following report: > > http://www.miercom.com/dl.html?fid=20090827&type=report I've known to never implicitly trust anything that comes out of Miercom's mouth, particularly if Cis

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-27 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 09:57:41PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > There are 2 levels where indirect next-hop can be used, one is on the RE > > to speed up RIB convergence, and the resulting FIB computation, and the > > other one on the PFE to speed up the actual FIB update itself. Juniper > > i

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:40:10 -0400 (EDT) > From: Igor Gashinsky > Sender: juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Stefan Fouant wrote: > > :: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Richard A Steenbergen > wrote: > :: > :: I thought this was the whole idea behind the introdu

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Igor Gashinsky
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Stefan Fouant wrote: :: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: :: :: I thought this was the whole idea behind the introduction of the indirect :: next-hop. Basically abstracting a level of recursion so that when :: underlying next-hop paths changed, a

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:30:30PM -0400, Stefan Fouant wrote: > I thought this was the whole idea behind the introduction of the > indirect next-hop. Basically abstracting a level of recursion so that > when underlying next-hop paths changed, all they needed to do was to > do a KRT change for the

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Stefan Fouant
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Well, we saw something similar (that I've described on this list several > times) but not exactly what you described, starting somewhere in 7.x and > continuing until 8.5 where it was fixed on most platforms (including > MX). Basicall

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 08:11:04AM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > >Well, we saw something similar (that I've described on this list several > >times) but not exactly what you described, starting somewhere in 7.x and > >continuing until 8.5 where it

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Gregory Agerba
The bottom-line is, what level of trust does Miercom deserve? Same goes for other companies doing same activities. - Gregory 2009/9/24 Richard A Steenbergen > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:46:01PM -0700, Jeff Tantsura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Would be interesting to see Juniper's reaction on followin

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-25 Thread Patrik Olsson
Pekka, for the I-chip that is used in the MX, there are enchancements to keep second best hop in the I-chip so it doesnt have to update the fib from the RE in JUNOS 10.0. This in combination with BFD, IP FRR and BGP nexthop should take care of any reconvergence performance problems in MX. Patrik

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-24 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Well, we saw something similar (that I've described on this list several times) but not exactly what you described, starting somewhere in 7.x and continuing until 8.5 where it was fixed on most platforms (including MX). For reference, this threa

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:13:41PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > Have you tested MX also during RIB or FIB changes? I'd like to use > this as a soapbox. On Juniper platforms, when a next-hop changes, > this results in first DELETE and then (maybe much later) ADD > operations in FIB. We have no

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-24 Thread Eric Van Tol
] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: > Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960 > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:46:01PM -0700, Jeff Tantsura wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Would be interesting to see Juniper's reaction on following report: > > > > http://www.mi

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-24 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Patrik Olsson wrote: I dont know when there is a an official response, but the report seems very Cisco friendly... I have performed very tough tests on the MX, putting both multicast and QoS to the test and I have seen none of the problems Miercom claims they see... Have y

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-24 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:46:01PM -0700, Jeff Tantsura wrote: > Hi, > > Would be interesting to see Juniper's reaction on following report: > > http://www.miercom.com/dl.html?fid=20090827&type=report These reports are total frauds, Cisco pays Miercom to produce them and to make sure the results

Re: [j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-23 Thread Patrik Olsson
I dont know when there is a an official response, but the report seems very Cisco friendly... I have performed very tough tests on the MX, putting both multicast and QoS to the test and I have seen none of the problems Miercom claims they see... Patrik On Sep 24, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Jeff Tan

[j-nsp] Miercom Competitive Performance Testing Results: Cisco ASR9000 vs Juniper MX960

2009-09-23 Thread Jeff Tantsura
Hi, Would be interesting to see Juniper's reaction on following report: http://www.miercom.com/dl.html?fid=20090827&type=report Cheers, Jeff ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp