[j-nsp] How are max routes calculated on an SRX

[Morgan McLean]

We switched to an MX80 pair and have had no problems since.

Morgan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Brent Jones <brent at brentrjones.com> wrote:

> You're better off putting a router in front of your SRX to handle
> taking full feeds.
> You -can- do it on the SRX, but as mentioned, it isn't a fast platform
> for converging.
> If you're looking for on the cheap, MX5s can be had for a song.
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Morgan McLean <wrx230 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 700,000 routes in the control plane, as far as I know.
> >
> > Let me share my experience. SRX650 cluster, max routes somewhere along
> that
> > 700k number you gave. I was taking four feeds, giving me somewhere around
> > 1.6M routes. It technically took all of them, but it took 20 minutes to
> > failover all of those routes to another interface. The box was way
> > overloaded and caused major headaches. It would do things like say next
> hop
> > unavailable etc, this was because the forwarding plane still was pointing
> > the route to the downed interface, while the control plane was already
> > looking to the backup.
> >
> > Morgan
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
> > skeeve+junipernsp at eintellego.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I am considering using an SRX550 as a border router - its cheap, fast,
> and
> >> flexible, with a great selection of interfaces.
> >>
> >> Question is.... the specs say it can support a maximum of 700k routes.
> >>
> >> Now, if what I suspect is right, that is great, but I am getting
> >> conflicting information.
> >>
> >> A full feed at the moment is about 430k routes.  So I am hoping that the
> >> SRX550 could take multiple full feeds... lets say - 3-4, and it just
> >> installs a single unique copy of the full feed which is way under the
> 700k
> >> threshold.
> >>
> >> But someone was trying to tell me that it couldn't take two world feeds
> as
> >> together they are 860k routes.. but my gut feeling is that this is
> wrong as
> >> I am not sure what purpose the SRX550 having 700k route capacity would
> be
> >> if it operated that way.
> >>
> >> Any pointers to documentation that supported how Juniper SRX counted
> their
> >> routes would be great.
> >>
> >> ...Skeeve
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