There is at least one major vendor with the same (threading) problem! If you go down this type of route (and many have for 20 years with a lot of success) just remember about those limitations as they will hurt when you least expect it - it's one thing to hit bugs it's another thing to hit a bug it's entirely different when you crash through the glass ceiling!
Regards, Neil Sent from my iPhone On 16 May 2016, at 21:36, Adrian Bolster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Peter, The 1036 still only uses 1 cpu core for BGP, despite there being 36 available - it's not truly a multi processor router, due to the software not hardware, having said the price point is very attractive and for sub 1k you've got a huge amount of product for your money:) We don't really notice an issue with convergence - however, we only use BGP externally and OSPF internally. Adrian. ________________________________ From: Peter Knapp [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 16 May 2016 20:53 To: Adrian Bolster; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] Mikrotik as Service Provider Router Hi Adrian and co. Don't you have massive convergence issues with a table reload on them? We tried ccr1036s and they basically seemed to be all but unresponsive loading a full table of routes. To be fair we haven't tried for a while but did note still a single threaded bgp process and seemed awful. Interested to hear new knowledge on these.. Peter -------- Original message -------- From: Adrian Bolster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: 16/05/2016 20:23 (GMT+00:00) To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [uknof] Mikrotik as Service Provider Router Hi Paul, Oure whole core is Mikrotik, no Juniper or Brocade in sight! We're running 3 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 eBGP sessions over 2 Mikrotik Routerboards, 2 1gibt/s point to point and 1 10gbit/s to a different provider, each with a full routing table and they don't even break a sweat. Adrian. ________________________________ From: uknof [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] on behalf of Paul Bone [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 16 May 2016 13:09 To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Administrator Subject: [uknof] Mikrotik as Service Provider Router Has anyone had experience using Mikrotik CCR as either CE or PE routers? I have been playing with transparent traffic shaping on one of the little hAP units (not suggesting this as a CE!) and it seems to work well and the OS has support for BGP, BFD and MPLS. We currently use Juniper SRX but the supposed throughput figures and cost of the Mikrotik would be very attractive at the high commercial level. Best regards, Paul
