[c-nsp] 1841 suitable for BGP?

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Matthew Crocker wrote:

> BGP updates once per minute will crush the router and cause all
> packets to stop.

Err, do you actually have proof of this? My experience is that if CEF is 
enabled, you won't see much affect on packet performance when the BGP 
process is working. If the router is doing a lot of packet forwarding, BGP 
processing will be slower and that might in a reconvergence scenario slow 
things down, but the actual passing of packets isn't much affected.

The BGP processing and BGP scanner is run at low priority and as long as 
you're not process switching the packets it shouldn't affect performance.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se