Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption

mike.lyon at gmail.com mike.lyon at gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 18:35:48 UTC 2017


What hardware you running the CHR on?

> On Dec 5, 2017, at 10:29, Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
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> I'm replacing an M10i with a CHR. 
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> I hope you have a newer RE so that you don't have worse BGP convergence than a CCR. 
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> Mike Hammett 
> Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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> Midwest-IX 
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "mike lyon" <mike.lyon at gmail.com> 
> To: tony at wicks.co.nz 
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 12:11:27 PM 
> Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption 
> 
> Unfortunately, yes. Thats why two Juniper M7is just arrived on my doorstep yesterday... 
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>> On Dec 5, 2017, at 10:10, <tony at wicks.co.nz> <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote: 
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>> Is that actually still true nowadays ? Of course there is always the option of running RouterOS on an X86 for an effective solution as well. 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: mike.lyon at gmail.com [mailto:mike.lyon at gmail.com] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2017 7:07 AM 
>> To: tony at wicks.co.nz 
>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org 
>> Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption 
>> 
>> Bad thing about the CCRs is that their BGP process is single threaded. So even though it has a bunch of cores, it doesn’t utilize them for BGP. 
>> 
>> -Mike 
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