[j-nsp] MX vs. 7600 experience?

[Amos Rosenboim]

Hello Kris,

I don't (yet) have hands on experience with the MX series, but I have  
a comment regarding 7600 router.
The 7600 control plane processing is not the strongest I've seen.
I have a customer who uses 7600 as a peering router at major peering  
points. These routers hold between 100 and 400 BGP sessions with  
varying number of routes received from each peer.
Whenever there is some instability in the peering point then BGP  
consumes most of the router CPU and the router starts dropping ISIS  
adjacencies, so instability increases and so on.

This is with SUP720 and 12.2(18)SXF5. I heard that newer versions of  
IOS contain enhancements to the BGP processing that might improve the  
situation, but I have not tested it myself.

Regards

Amos Rosenboim
amos at oasis-tech.net



On Jul 6, 2008, at 6:55 AM, Kris Price wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We're looking at both the MX and 7600 platforms for our MPLS needs  
> and I was interested in hearing feedback from people about their  
> experiences - both positive and negative - with either platforms.
>
> Whatever is selected will be used both as Ps and PEs w/ all 10GE on  
> the core side. This is a fairly large (continental) deployment, and  
> it will set the standard internationally for this customer. Main  
> use will be for IP VPN and EoMPLS, but VPLS may show up in the  
> future too.
>
> Looks like they both will work for our needs. So what it really  
> comes down to is important things like *stability*, support  
> experience, etc.
>
> If anyone has something they'd rather not express publicly, feel  
> free to contact me off list.
>
> Feedback is very much appreciated. :)
>
> Cheers
> Kris
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