I'd like to see the actual benchmarks. Something similar to
routerperformance.pdf spreadsheet, but something more recent. Seems like
those resources are alone available for partners.
I've been following this thread, but no one has pointed out any
documentation yet. Just speculation and personal exp
Original Message -
From: "Bill Stewart"
To: "Tony Varriale"
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
That's the spec sheet, and that's for straight forwarding.
If you want to do much of anything else at
On Monday 12 April 2010 01:28:45 pm Jeffrey Negro wrote:
> Any and all suggestions on the hardware would be greatly appreciated.
> Thank you in advance!
Well, I've read through this thread as it's unfolded
I repurposed some big hardware (that we already had on-hand) to terminate our
metro e
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Tony Varriale wrote:
> > From: "Bill Stewart"
> > Be careful using 3845s for 100 Mbps connections or above
> The 3825 says 179mbps on their spec sheet. Not sure where you are getting
> your numbers but they are way off.
> All of those numbers are straight forward
> All of those numbers are straight forwarding with nothing turned on
> and 64
> byte packets. That way you get a nice idea of what the CPU can do.
They're also, as ever, unidirectional, so you can immediately halve them if
your question is "what size pipe can I connect this device to?"
As a V
> Some caveats:
>
> 1. only the ME version supports MPLS, in case you want to overlay an
> MPLS TE/VPN network on a Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) ELAN raw Ethernet
> service.
> 2. If you are using IP multicast, make sure that the Metro Ethernet
> provider supports PIM snooping, otherwise (S,G) direct
Original Message - From: "Bill Stewart"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
>
>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Dylan Ebner
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> However, this router also has 2 100
what the CPU can do.
tv
- Original Message -
From: "Bill Stewart"
To:
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Dylan Ebner
wrote:
However, this router also has 2 100mb connections from local lans that i
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Holmes,David A wrote:
> We use Cisco 3750 L3 switches for Metro Ethernet connectivity. The 3750
> SFPs can run at wire speed up to 1 GiGE. The 3750s are very reliable,
> and have good, follow-the-sun technical support in case of problems.
> Some caveats:
>
> 1. onl
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:06:56AM -0700, Holmes,David A wrote:
> We use Cisco 3750 L3 switches for Metro Ethernet connectivity. The 3750
> SFPs can run at wire speed up to 1 GiGE. The 3750s are very reliable,
> and have good, follow-the-sun technical support in case of problems.
If you do not nee
, emulating a 1993-style Ethernet hub.
-Original Message-
From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swm...@swm.pp.se]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 9:43 PM
To: Jeffrey Negro
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jeffrey Negro wrote:
> In our case I believe
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-Original Message-
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 11:13 PM
To: frnk...@iname.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org; 'Bill Stewart'
Subject: Re: Router for
12, 2010 8:42 PM
To: Dennis Burgess
Cc: Jeffrey Negro; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
Yes, but, according to the Mikrotik web site they appear to be obsolete
and incapable of routing IPv6.
Owen
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote:
> a PowerRouter at http://
On Apr 13, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Jeremy Parr wrote:
> On 13 April 2010 00:12, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> I stand corrected on the Mikrotik... Apparently, while not well documented,
>> they
>> do, indeed support IPv6 and their Wiki even includes tunnel configuration
>> information.
>>
>> Apologies to Mi
On 13 April 2010 00:12, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I stand corrected on the Mikrotik... Apparently, while not well documented,
> they
> do, indeed support IPv6 and their Wiki even includes tunnel configuration
> information.
>
> Apologies to Mikrotik (and some encouragement to add this to your main-lin
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jeffrey Negro wrote:
In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes and a
lines of ACL. Do you think the routing protocols are your largest resource
usage in your scenario, or is it also just simple routing as well?
Get a used 3550 or a new 3400ME or so
o: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Dylan Ebner
> wrote:
>> However, this router also has 2 100mb connections from local lans that it
> is also terminiating.
>> For our 100mb metro e connections we use 3845s
We run a 3845 at over 300 Mbps and it's less than 50% CPUmost times less
than 30%. No BGP, just OSPF.
Frank
-Original Message-
From: Bill Stewart [mailto:nonobvi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:27 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
O
Yes, but, according to the Mikrotik web site they appear to be obsolete
and incapable of routing IPv6.
Owen
On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Dennis Burgess wrote:
> a PowerRouter at http://www.mikrotikrouter.com can handle several
> hundred meg without issues.
>
> ---
http://www.vyatta.com/ ?
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Jeffrey Negro wrote:
In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes and a
lines of ACL. Do you think the routing protocols are your largest resource
usage in your scenario, or is it also just simple routing as well?
If your needs are simple IP routing +
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From: Jeffrey Negro [mailto:jne...@billtrust.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:26 PM
To: Dylan Ebner
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes a
> question is about hardware. Can I assume that I can use something like
a
> Cisco 2000 series router with two built in fast/gig ethernet ports,
> without a WIC?
For Cisco, check out the ME3400 series of switches. Be sure to look at
the IOS licensing carefully to see if the features you need are
Jeffrey Negro wrote:
In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes and a
lines of ACL.
In that case a linux/FreeBSD router would work great.
- Kevin
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Dylan Ebner wrote:
> However, this router also has 2 100mb connections from local lans that it is
> also terminiating.
> For our 100mb metro e connections we use 3845s. The 100 mb service terminates
> into NM-GEs, which have a faster throughput than the hwics.
In our case I believe we would be dealing with just static routes and a
lines of ACL. Do you think the routing protocols are your largest resource
usage in your scenario, or is it also just simple routing as well?
Jeffrey Negro, Network Engineer
Billtrust - Improving Your Billing, Improving Your
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:55:29PM +, Dylan Ebner wrote:
> also terminiating. For our 100mb metro e connections we use
> 3845s. The 100 mb service terminates into NM-GEs, which have a
FWIW, we made the mistake of going for 3825s on a 50Mb/s policed
GigE. Running GRE/IPSec (AIM-VPN'd) and QoS,
We use metro E for our WAN and our internet access delivery. The 2600 series
routers do not have enough horsepower to do a 40 Mb connection and eigrp. The
2811 can do 40 mb and eigrp but they start to have difficulty when you add in
inspection or large ACLs. We just last week turned a 40mb metro
Jeffrey,
We have deployed metro Ethernet in our network... some things to consider:
1) Is metro Ethernet available end to end, if not will you utilize MPLS?
2) We've deployed Juniper EX3200s, Cisco has great solutions as well... for
example 2800 series router. We use Cisco as well.
3) Metro Ethe
a PowerRouter at http://www.mikrotikrouter.com can handle several
hundred meg without issues.
---
Dennis Burgess, CCNA, Mikrotik Certified Trainer, MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE,
MTCTCE, MTCUME
Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Servi
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