We switched to an MX80 pair and have had no problems since. Morgan
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Brent Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
