Low Cost 10G Router

Wed May 20 17:44:01 UTC 2015

    Well, in my experience, which is limited to small iron mostly.

    Juniper MX104

        Do not forget to get a second RE (Routine Engine) for software
upgrade, and be prepare to accept to pay a "license" to use the 10Gbps
ports on top of buying the IO cards.
        (1 license per 2 ports).

        Don't forget to set aside some times to port your configuration
into it, if you are used to Cisco/Brocade style config.

        And that I'm too stupid to figure out a way to make 'test
policy' do the same thing as "show ip bgp route-map XYZ"

    CER2K (latest revision)

        Has plenty of RAM for 6 full routing table (and maybe more) and
1.5M RIB compared to the ~524k from the first gen.
        ( Got burned on those )

    MLX

        Juniper MX104 where cheaper for about the same platform using
MLX products.

    Cisco

        I don't know about the licensing for the ASR but I mostly deal
with second hand devices.

        They are not flashy but do the job.

    Huawei, ZTE

        I didn't touch those and mostly won't beside looking into some
security concern some people are having.

    PS: With almost 130k prefixes polluting the routing table you could
use a software route server and feed an auto-summary of the full route
into a router/switch that can handle the RIB/FIB.  I have yet to test
Bird but I heard good things about using it for that function.
    ( By pollution, I mean, it was a test made on 6 peers where I found
~130k prefixes where using the same path as their larger subnet, I have
to put up more time on that bench thou )

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On 05/20/15 12:42, Colton Conor wrote:
> So, from the sounds of it most are saying for low cost, the way to go would
> be a software router, which I was trying to avoid. To answer the bandwidth
> question, we would have three 10G ports with three different carriers and
> at max push 10Gbps of total traffic to start.
>
> I think this leaves me with hardware routers that can support full BGP
> tables. So, who actually sells full bgp routers. So far on my list I have:
> Juniper MX Series
> Brocade MLXe or CER
> Cisco ASR 9K
> Huawei NE40E-X1-M4
> ZTE, not sure which model?
> ALU 7750
>
> Besides the above, am I missing anyone else that makes a true carrier grade
> hardware router?
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Yes, we could run route add / route del when we got any announce from
>> external world with ExaBGP directly. I have implemented custom custom
>> Firewall (netmap-ipfw) management tool which implement in similar
>> manner. But I'm working with BGP flow spec. It's so complex, standard
>> BGP is much times simpler.
>>
>> And I could share my ExaBGP configuration and hook scripts.
>>
>> ExaBGP config:
>> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_firewall.conf
>>
>> Hook script which put all announces to Redis Queue:
>>
>> https://github.com/FastVPSEestiOu/fastnetmon/blob/master/src/scripts/exabgp_queue_writer.py
>>
>> But full BGP route table is enough big and need external processing.
>>
>> But yes, with some Python code is possible to implement route server
>> with ExaBGP.
>>
>> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Aled Morris <aledm at qix.co.uk> wrote:
>>> On 20 May 2015 at 15:00, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> Yes, you could do filtering with Quagga. But Quagga is pretty old tool
>>>> without multiple dynamic features. But with ExaBGP you could do really
>>>> any significant route table transformations with Python in few lines
>>>> of code. But it's definitely add additional point of failure/bug.
>>>
>>> Couldn't your back-end scripts running under ExaBGP also manage the FIB,
>>> using standard Unix tools/APIs?
>>>
>>> Managing the FIB is basically just "route add" and "route delete" right?
>>>
>>> Aled
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
>>
>