[j-nsp] MX80 Route table Size

[Paul Stewart]

This is the busiest MX80 we have in production - RE shows 61% memory used,
box handles this quite well and no concerns currently... Traffic wise,
it's doing about 3Gb/s in it's role....

Paul


inet.0: 466698 destinations, 645933 routes (466680 active, 16 holddown, 12
hidden)
              Direct:     22 routes,     22 active
               Local:     21 routes,     21 active
                OSPF:   2490 routes,   2489 active
                 BGP: 643365 routes, 464138 active
              Static:      4 routes,      4 active
                IGMP:      1 routes,      1 active
           Aggregate:     11 routes,      5 active
                RSVP:     19 routes,      0 active

inet.3: 19 destinations, 19 routes (19 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
                RSVP:     19 routes,     19 active

mpls.0: 17 destinations, 17 routes (17 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
                MPLS:      3 routes,      3 active
                RSVP:      6 routes,      6 active
               L2VPN:      4 routes,      4 active
                VPLS:      4 routes,      4 active
                   
inet6.0: 14397 destinations, 19148 routes (14397 active, 0 holddown, 10
hidden)
              Direct:     18 routes,     11 active
               Local:     16 routes,     16 active
               OSPF3:     79 routes,     79 active
                 BGP:  19035 routes,  14291 active

bgp.l2vpn.0: 4 destinations, 4 routes (4 active, 0 holddown, 0 hidden)
                 BGP:      4 routes,      4 active




On 2013-09-23 4:51 AM, "Saku Ytti" <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

>On (2013-09-23 11:24 +1000), Luca Salvatore wrote:
>
>Hi Luca,
>
>> I can't seem to find how many IPv4/IPv6 routes the MX80 range can
>>support.  I know it can do the full BGP table but the info does not seem
>>to be anywhere on juniper.net.
>> I'm sure it used to beŠ. Perhaps I'm blind.  I can find it for EX
>>switches but not MX gear.
>
>The HW has exactly same 256MB RLDRAM as rest of Juniper high-end gear,
>including T4k. I.e. FIB is identical in all MX and new trio generation T
>gear.
>
>You can see how that memory is spread and populated via 'start shell pfe
>network tfeb0' and 'show jnh 0 pool ...'
>
>> Does anyone have a like to official juniper doco that states the max
>>route table for MX80?
>
>Any number would be only indicative/marketing. Much as same as if you'd
>ask
>how many routes can your laptop handle, it would depend what else will be
>using the memory.
>I'd say 1M is reasonable figure, maybe in some environments you could push
>it to 1.5M but you'll certainly not going to see 2M.
>
>I worry about this bit, as I already have boxes with >800k IPv4 prefixes.
>
>-- 
>  ++ytti
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