Low Cost 10G Router

Josh Baird joshbaird at gmail.com
Wed May 20 02:49:17 UTC 2015


The BGP daemon on the CCR routers is not multi-threaded; it only will use
one core.

Josh

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  So this new $1295 Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM  has a 36 core Tilera CPU with
> 16GB of ram. Each core is running at 1.2Ghz? I assume that Mikrotik is
> multicore in software, so why does this box not outperform these intel
> boxes that everyone is recommending? Is it just a limitation of ports?
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal at snappytelecom.net>
> 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
> >
> >
> > Folks often forget that Mikrotik ROS can also run on x86 machines.....
> >
> > Size your favorite hardware (server) or network appliance with
> appropriate
> > ports, add MT ROS on a CF card, and you are good to go.
> >
> > We use i7 based network appliance with dual 10g cards (you can use a quad
> > 10g card, such as those made by hotlav).
> >
> > with a 2gig of ram, you can easily do multiple (4-5 or more full bgp
> > peers), and i7 are good for approx 1.2mill pps.
> >
> >
> > Best of luck.
> >
> >
> > Faisal Imtiaz
> > Snappy Internet & Telecom
> >
>



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