Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Saku Ytti
On Thu, 11 Nov 2021 at 09:38, Mark Tinka wrote: > We are currently running 6.7.1, mainly to fix some LDPv6 issues. > > However, we started seeing this "too many BGP refresh messages" issue as > far back as 6.4.2. Did you run RPKI? Did you have softinbound disabled? This would cause a refresh

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/11/21 09:18, Gert Doering wrote: "newer code" might be the key issue here - what version are you on? Our 9001 have been extremely well-behaved in regards to BGP performance and robustness. Not as fast as the RSP440, but still well up to the job. We're on 6.5.3 ("nothing interesting

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 08:27:44AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote: > We have nothing against the forwarding performance of the ASR9001. It's > the control/management plane that seems to be slowing down (at least for > us, anyway) with newer code and a growing Internet DFZ. "newer code" might be

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/10/21 20:47, Shawn L wrote: I'll second Tom on this one. I actually have 2 9001S routers (the S is the port / memory limited license). They have 2 full feeds (V4 and V6) and some EIGRP, and that's about it. Currently handling things fine. Though only doing ~ 5gig in/out at this

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/10/21 20:00, Tom Hill wrote: I may live to regret asking this, but... I've run a lot more than that on a 9001, and it handled it all with aplomb. They're not as fast as an RSP440 (or RSP880) but in no way did I find them to be liabilities when running alongside measurably faster

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Shawn L
I'll second Tom on this one. I actually have 2 9001S routers (the S is the port / memory limited license). They have 2 full feeds (V4 and V6) and some EIGRP, and that's about it. Currently handling things fine. Though only doing ~ 5gig in/out at this point. Shawn On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 1:04

Re: [c-nsp] FIB scale on ASR9001

2021-11-10 Thread Tom Hill
On 05/11/2021 07:53, Mark Tinka wrote: > We are retiring ours, because CPU performance for just 2x IPv4 + 2x IPv6 > full sessions is too much for the Freescale PPC CPU. I may live to regret asking this, but... I've run a lot more than that on a 9001, and it handled it all with aplomb. They're