Low Cost 10G Router

Tue May 19 20:25:42 UTC 2015

I do use L3 switches for BGP at some locations (Cisco 3750) and they perform great. The problem is no instrumentation (e.g. Sflow, netflow). 

-mel via cell

> On May 19, 2015, at 12:55 PM, Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What about L3 switches? You could receive full BGP table with Linux
> BOX with ExaBGP, parse it and feed to L3 switch.
> 
>> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
>> I've seen serious, unusual performance bottlenecks in Mikrotik CCR, in some cases not even achieving a gigabit speeds on 10G interfaces. Performance drops more rapidly then Cisco with smaller packet sizes.
>> 
>> -mel beckman
>> 
>>> On May 19, 2015, at 12:28 PM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists at mtin.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I second the Mikrotik recommendation.  You don’t get support like you would with Cisco but it’s a solid product.
>>> 
>>> Justin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Justin Wilson j2sw at mtin.net
>>> http://www.mtin.net Managed Services – xISP Solutions – Data Centers
>>> http://www.thebrotherswisp.com Podcast about xISP topics
>>> http://www.midwest-ix.com Peering – Transit – Internet Exchange
>>> 
>>>> On May 19, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Keefe John <keefe-af at ethoplex.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> For about $1000 you could get a Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM but it only has 2 SFP+ ports.
>>>> 
>>>> http://routerboard.com/CCR1036-8G-2SplusEM
>>>> 
>>>> Keefe
>>>> 
>>>> On 5/19/2015 3:46 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>>>>>> How cheap is cheap and what performance numbers are you looking for?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> About as cheap as you can get:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> For about $3,000 you can build a Supermicro OEM system with an 8-core Xeon
>>>>>> E5 V3 and 4-port 10G Intel SFP+ NIC with 8G of RAM running VyOS.  The pro
>>>>>> is that BGP convergence time will be good (better than a 7200 VXR), and
>>>>>> number of tables likely won't be a concern since RAM is cheap.  The con is
>>>>>> that you're not doing things in hardware, so you'll have higher latency,
>>>>>> and your PPS will be lower.
>>>>> What 8 core Xeon E5 v3 would that be?  The 26xx's are hideously pricey,
>>>>> and for a router, you're probably better off with something like a
>>>>> Supermicro X10SRn fsvo "n" with a Xeon E5-1650v3.  Board is typically
>>>>> around $300, 1650 is around $550, so total cost I'm guessing closer to
>>>>> $1500-$2000 that route.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The edge you get there is the higher clock on the CPU.  Only six cores
>>>>> and only 15M cache, but 3.5GHz.  The E5-2643v3 is three times the cost
>>>>> for very similar performance specs.  Costwise, E5 single socket is the
>>>>> way to go unless you *need* more.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ... JG
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> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov