[f-nsp] MLX throughput issues

[nethub at gmail.com]

We are having a strange issue on our MLX running code 5.6.00c.  We are
encountering some throughput issues that seem to be randomly impacting
specific networks.

 

We use the MLX to handle both external BGP and internal VLAN routing.  Each
FLS648 is used for Layer 2 VLANs only.

 

>From a server connected by 1 Gbps uplink to a Foundry FLS648 switch, which
is then connected to the MLX on a 10 Gbps port, running a speed test to an
external network is getting 20MB/s.

 

Connecting the same server directly to the MLX is getting 70MB/s.

 

Connecting the same server to one of my customer's Juniper EX3200 (which BGP
peers with the MLX) also gets 70MB/s.

 

Testing to another external network, all three scenarios get 110MB/s.

 

The path to both test network locations goes through the same IP transit
provider.

 

We are running NI-MLX-MR with 2GB RAM, NI-MLX-10Gx4 connect to the Foundry
FLS648 by XFP-10G-LR, NI-MLX-1Gx20-GC was used for directly connecting the
server.  A separate NI-MLX-10Gx4 connects to our upstream BGP providers.
Customer's Juniper EX3200 connects to the same NI-MLX-10Gx4 as the FLS648.
We take default routes plus full tables from three providers by BGP, but
filter out most of the routes.

 

The fiber and optics on everything look fine.  CPU usage is less than 10% on
the MLX and all line cards and CPU usage at 1% on the FLS648.  ARP table on
the MLX is about 12K, and BGP table is about 308K routes.

 

Any assistance would be appreciated.  I suspect there is a setting that
we're missing on the MLX that is causing this issue.

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