We've been running BGP with MikroTik for quite some time now. It hasn't been flawless by any stretch, but ever since late v2.8 or early v2.9 we haven't had much trouble with it. We running v3.30 on two routers with two full feeds each and a third running v4.11 with two full feeds. All of these routers have a handful of downstream BGP peers that we are also delivering full tables to.
So far I think v4.11 might be the best, but we don't have as much time on that version as we do with v3.30. The only reason we moved one of our routers from v3.30 to v4.11 was because we had an unusual hang with that particular router. We weren't sure if it was hardware or OS related, however moving it to v4.11 seems to have resolved the problem. (knock on wood) Bottom line is given the price of a beefy MikroTik router vs. buying an Imagestream or Cisco that is equivalent we can have hot standby spares on hand and still be thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars ahead. That coupled with building a network that isn't solely dependent on any single point of failure further reduces the crisis when a core router fails. Things break...doesn't matter if MikroTik, ImageStream, Cisco or Juniper makes it. ALL things break eventually, so plan for it! Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:11 AM To: n...@brevardwireless.com; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS Hi Nick, How stable has the Mikrotik been running full BGP with the two providers ? (I read about a memory leak issues, is that why you are using 5.0rc1 ?) We have been considering getting a Mikrotik for such use. Thanks. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom On 11/2/2010 9:21 AM, Nick Olsen wrote: > We have two full tables running on mikrotik, in two different locations. > > Running that command > /ip route print count-only where bgp-as-path="1234" > Replacing the AS with "33363" (local cable company). > Doesn't work on either of our routers for some reason (MT 5.0rc1 or 4.4). > > Our router running a core 2 2.93ghz can take two full feeds gets all > the routes in about 4 seconds, And cpu load is idle about 13 seconds later. > However making changes with routing filters take anywhere from > 10seconds to 2 minutes depending on what its doing. > > > Nick Olsen > Network Operations > (855) FLSPEED x106 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > *From*: "Kristian Hoffmann" <kh...@fire2wire.com> > *Sent*: Friday, October 29, 2010 11:50 AM > *To*: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > *Subject*: [WISPA] Full BGP on RouterOS > > Hi, > > Does anyone have 1-2 full BGP routing tables on a MikroTik router? If > so, what kind of hardware are you running. I'm testing a single feed > on a P3 800. It loads the routes fine, and seems to handle the routes > in stride (all 328659 of them), until you start poking at the routing > table like... > > /ip route print count-only where bgp-as-path="1234" > > An AS that yielded 500 routes took 1-2 minutes at 100% CPU to complete. > Is this "normal" these days, or is significantly greater hardware in > order? I used to have a full feed on a Cisco 3640. It took 5-10 > minutes to load all of the routes after a reload, and it was almost > impossible to log in, high packet loss, etc. during that time. > > So, should it take 10 seconds on real hardware, or is this type of > query always slow? > > Thanks, > > -- > Kristian Hoffmann > System Administrator > kh...@fire2wire.com > http://www.fire2wire.com > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
