You're better off putting a router in front of your SRX to handle taking full feeds. You -can- do it on the SRX, but as mentioned, it isn't a fast platform for converging. If you're looking for on the cheap, MX5s can be had for a song.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Morgan McLean <[email protected]> wrote: > 700,000 routes in the control plane, as far as I know. > > Let me share my experience. SRX650 cluster, max routes somewhere along that > 700k number you gave. I was taking four feeds, giving me somewhere around > 1.6M routes. It technically took all of them, but it took 20 minutes to > failover all of those routes to another interface. The box was way > overloaded and caused major headaches. It would do things like say next hop > unavailable etc, this was because the forwarding plane still was pointing > the route to the downed interface, while the control plane was already > looking to the backup. > > Morgan > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Skeeve Stevens < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I am considering using an SRX550 as a border router - its cheap, fast, and >> flexible, with a great selection of interfaces. >> >> Question is.... the specs say it can support a maximum of 700k routes. >> >> Now, if what I suspect is right, that is great, but I am getting >> conflicting information. >> >> A full feed at the moment is about 430k routes. So I am hoping that the >> SRX550 could take multiple full feeds... lets say - 3-4, and it just >> installs a single unique copy of the full feed which is way under the 700k >> threshold. >> >> But someone was trying to tell me that it couldn't take two world feeds as >> together they are 860k routes.. but my gut feeling is that this is wrong as >> I am not sure what purpose the SRX550 having 700k route capacity would be >> if it operated that way. >> >> Any pointers to documentation that supported how Juniper SRX counted their >> routes would be great. >> >> ...Skeeve >> * >> >> * >> *Skeeve Stevens, CEO - *eintellego Pty Ltd >> [email protected] ; www.eintellego.net >> >> Phone: 1300 753 383; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve >> >> facebook.com/eintellego ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> >> linkedin.com/in/skeeve >> >> twitter.com/networkceoau ; blog: www.network-ceo.net >> >> The Experts Who The Experts Call >> Juniper - Cisco – IBM - Cloud >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- Brent Jones [email protected] _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
