[c-nsp] 7200VXR G2 performance

[Nick Hilliard]

On 08/11/2012 20:17, David Farrell wrote:
> Only today I was taking Nick's approach to eeking out 2 x 7204s w/ G2s for
> a few more weeks. I removed them from the DFZ and tore down around 120
> direct peering BGP sessions. We now send them 8 prefixes each, including
> default. TBH, this has had a negligible impact so I await the arrival of
> ASR1ks to replace these. That's said, there are some intense ACLs on the
> high traffic interfaces which could be rationalised somewhat. If there is
> time I might have a bash at this.

I should have said that the list was in order of priority.  If you can
remove customers and traffic, you can bring down the load without reducing
functionality.  Everything else involves a functionality / smartness
compromise.

But yeah, an npe-g2 has a limited amount of steam.  Once you've run out,
that's kinda it.

Nick

> 
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org
> <mailto:nick at foobar.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 08/11/2012 06:13, Ali Sumsam wrote:
>     > Any suggestion how can we lower the load or increase the power of the
>     > router. We need a temporary solution for a couple of weeks.
>     >
>     > Besides, I think removing ACLs and limiting the traffic coming from
>     > Aggregation(3560G) can help. Comments plz....
> 
>     Remove:
> 
>     - customers
>     - traffic
>     - ACLs
>     - uRPF
>     - Netflow
>     - policy routing
>     - full routing
>     - more customers
> 
>     Nick
> 
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