PPPoE Server is single thread too.
2013/12/27 Nick Olsen <[email protected]> > Exactly what Faisal Said. The BGP process appears to be single threaded at > the moment. So taking on full BGP tables can be a bit slow compared to a > decent X86 box. But in terms of raw forwarding power they are pretty > monstrous. > > We replaced a few Maxxwave 6 port Atom's with the CCR. ~400Mb/s and ~40K > pps aggregate across all ports. CPU load went from ~25% to ~0-2%. These are > in a configuration where they have little or no firewall/nat/queue rules. > And in most cases are running MPLS. > > We've not had any issues with stability so far either (Knock on wood). > > Nick Olsen > Network Operations > (855) FLSPEED x106 > > ---------------------------------------- > From: "Faisal Imtiaz" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 10:33 AM > To: "Geraint Jones" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], "Martin Hotze" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences? > > FYI... Mikrotik Cloud Core routers are nice, however one has to keep > something in mind when deploying them... > > Only One Core (of the CPU) is dedicated to each port / process. > So this is good so as to contain what happens on a single port from taxing > the whole CPU.. > But not so good when you need more cpu power than a single core for that > port. > > Also, BGP process will only use one core. > > While these units make for great 'customer facing' edge routers, with > plenty of power and the ability to keep issues contained... The X-86 based > (Core2Duo/i5/i7) Mikrotik are more suitable (Processing power wise) for > running multiple full BGP tables peering. > > Regards & Good Luck. > > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Geraint Jones" <[email protected]> > > To: "Martin Hotze" <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 4:02:45 AM > > Subject: Re: Mikrotik Cloud Core Router and BGP real life experiences? > > > > I am going to be deploying 4 as edge routers in the next few weeks, each > will > > have 1 or 2 full tables plus partial IX tables. So I should have some > > empirical info soon. > > > > They will be doing eBGP to upstreams and iBGP/OSPF internally. I went > with > > the 16gb RAM models. > > > > However these boxes are basically Linux running on top of tilera CPUs, > in > > terms of throughput as long as everything stays on the fastpath they have > no > > issues doing wire speed on all ports, however the moment you add a > firewall > > rule or the like they drop to 1.5gbps. > > > > > > > > > On 27/12/2013, at 9:47 pm, Martin Hotze <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > looking at the specs of Mikrotik Cloud Core Routers it seems to be to > good > > > to be true [1] having so much bang for the bucks. So virtually all > smaller > > > ISPs would drop their CISCO gear for Mikrotik Routerboards. > > > > > > We are using a handful of Mikrotik boxes, but on a much lower network > level > > > (splitting networks; low end router behind ADSL modem, ...). We're > happy > > > with them. > > > > > > So I am asking for real life experience and not lab values with > Mikrotik > > > Cloud Core Routers and BGP. How good can they handle full tables and a > > > bunch of peering sessions? How good does the box react when adding > filters > > > (during attacks)? Reloading the table? etc. etc. > > > > > > I am looking for _real_ _life_ values compared to a CISCO NPE-G2. > Please > > > tell me/us from your first hand experience. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > greetings, Martin > > > > > > [1] If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Eduardo Schoedler
