So looking at options with our contractor on this, BGP appear to be flapping occasionally, I dont know alot, about BGP, but I know its poor etiquette If we stay on the mikrotik we are going to get the CCR1072 solution unless there a better routerboard for this not listed
Cisco is still on the table, though Im not a fan of the recurring fee and my need to add another learning curve to my plate There was some discussion about virtualization, but the second location is not Datacenter so we kind of dismissed it. But then it occurred to me that if we did the x86 load, that leaves a future option open to migrate the hardware to a hypervisor and gets us vendor agnostic on the routing solution. Supermicro has a couple 1U options that dont look terrible, just skimming, havent looked at other options. Is the x86 load comparable in reliability to the routerboard load, I assume is essentially mirrored but routerboards have verified driver/compatibility. We dont need a huge number of ports, probably would stick to a bank of SFP so we can do copper or fiber, I just think multisocket and a ton of cores with as much RAM as we want. This will also buy us more time to let CHR finish cooking if we did go down the virtual routing path There are some other benefits to an on premise hypervisor like redundant DNS, we are currently looking to build those and other little misc servers on rasberry pi On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Look at the bottom of this page in regards to performance..... > > https://routerboard.com/RB1100AHx2 > > Look at the last entry... for expected performance... don't look at the > best numbers, but rather look at the worst numbers.... > > And you will quickly recognize that rb1100ahx2 as a multi-function router > is only good for 100-200meg of traffic... > > ------------------------------- > Now I will also backup above with the following:- > > Many moons ago, when we turned up our first peering port connection (1G) > we used a RB1100AHx2 router, and very quickly learned that we were running > into a hardware bottleneck around 150m to 200meg of traffic > > We replaced it with a PowerRouter 732..... and we were able to pass a > full 1G of traffic all day long without any issues... > > ------------------------------- > > I am not making a case for the PowerRouter ...... I am confirming that the > RB1100AHx2 is under-powered for the job.... > > > Best of Luck. > > Regards > > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > 7266 SW 48 Street > Miami, FL 33155 > Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 <(305)%20663-5518> > > Help-desk: (305)663-5518 <(305)%20663-5518> Option 2 or Email: > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Steve Jones" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Monday, May 8, 2017 11:42:31 PM > *Subject: *[AFMUG] rb1100ahx2 bgp load > > We turned up BGP on one of our routers today, 2 peers, full routes, this > is just one upstream, we will be turning up bgp with another provider > shortly elsewhere on the network, I assume those tables will make their way > to this router. > load averaged 4-12% prior to turning up BGP now its running 60-90, even > occasionally pegged > > is this a matter of tuning BGP and ROS packages, or is this just too much > for the router? this is only at 150mbps, as we increase capacity I feel we > have already scaled out of this router if its not a misconfiguration of > something on my end > > > [image: Inline image 1] > >
