[c-nsp] BGP peer groups / performance question

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:02:34PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> 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. 

With current IOS versions, peer group don't bring any performance advantages
(as peers with identical output policies get grouped into "update-groups"
automatically).

OTOH, peer-groups / peer-templates are nice to reduce the size of your
router configuration, so for us, it's still worth using them.

gert
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