[c-nsp] BGP peer groups / performance question

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:02:34PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Hi folks..
> 
> Has anyone studied how much faster BGP peer groups are on very loaded
> routers?  I have a customer that I'm doing work with currently that
> has about 300 BGP peers on a Sup720/7613 box.  Downstream customers
> take about 10 minutes to receive a full routing table. 
> 
> I'm used to seeing this in under 2 minutes normally - a Cisco doc
> recommends moving to BGP peer groups which is quite possible to do but
> before starting to migrate these sessions into peer groups I wanted to
> find out if there's a major change I should be looking for or
> something quite minor...?

Peer groups are not necessary, modern IOS will do update grouping on its
own when the export policies and necessary bgp parameters match. If you
want to see what it does to your performance without update grouping,
configure "capability orf" (which breaks it) then stand back. I'll give
you a hint, it's not pretty. :)

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