[c-nsp] BGP DFZ convergence time - FIB programming

[Mark Tinka]

On 5/Oct/18 09:17, Robert Hass wrote:

> Hi
> I'm looking for share experiences regarding time needed to program full DFZ
> table (710K IPv4 prefixes) on NCS 5500 boxes.
>
> Right now we testing competitors (Jericho based boxes) and results are not
> impressive - time needed to program is aroud 2min 30sec up to 3min.
>
> How fast NCS 5500 is handing FIB programming ?

I don't have any of these boxes (or chipsets) in my network, but out of
curiosity, how long does it take to load the same routes in RIB,
depending on if these are learned via iBGP (from a route reflector,
likely) or via eBGP (from an upstream provider, for example)?

Mark.