[j-nsp] juniper router reccomendations

[Josh Baird]

Isn't there a x86 based RE for the MX104 in the works?  If so, this should
improve performance/convergence times by quite a bit I would think.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Matthew Crocker <matthew at corp.crocker.com>
wrote:

>
> Mike,
>
>  Here is the view of my MX80.   This router has a couple full tables and a
> bunch of peers through various IXes.   I have an MX480 on order to replace
> this MX80.   I’ll use this a dedicated IX peering router so I won’t have
> full tables on my IX border later this year.
>
>  The MX80 has horrific full table convergence (8 minutes +/-).  The MX104
> is a bit better.  You would need to go to a MX240 with a real RE to get
> decent convergence times.
>
> matthew at MX80> show bgp summary
> Groups: 10 Peers: 15 Down peers: 0
>
> matthew at MX80> show route summary
> Autonomous system number: XXXX
> Router ID: A.B.C.D
>
> inet.0: 614169 destinations, 1807913 routes (614160 active, 10 holddown, 0
> hidden)
> Restart Complete
>               Direct:      7 routes,      7 active
>                Local:      6 routes,      6 active
>                 OSPF:    511 routes,    508 active
>                  BGP: 1807386 routes, 613636 active
>               Static:      1 routes,      1 active
>                  LDP:      2 routes,      2 active
>
> inet6.0: 14443 destinations, 28877 routes (14443 active, 0 holddown, 0
> hidden)
> Restart Complete
>               Direct:      6 routes,      4 active
>                Local:      6 routes,      6 active
>                  BGP:  28865 routes,  14433 active
>
>
> matthew at MX80> show system memory
> System memory usage distribution:
>        Total memory: 2072576 Kbytes (100%)
>     Reserved memory:   36896 Kbytes (  1%)
>        Wired memory:  302092 Kbytes ( 14%)
>       Active memory: 1399432 Kbytes ( 67%)
>     Inactive memory:  120000 Kbytes (  5%)
>        Cache memory:   69720 Kbytes (  3%)
>         Free memory:  143680 Kbytes (  6%)
> Memory disk resident memory:  349640 Kbytes
> VM-Kbytes(  %  ) Resident(  %  ) Map-name
>    913972(87.16)   343424(16.56) kernel
>
> matthew at MX80> show system processes summary
> last pid: 34226;  load averages:  0.24,  0.31,  0.23  up 477+00:51:09
> 18:31:50
> 142 processes: 4 running, 110 sleeping, 28 waiting
>
> Mem: 1367M Active, 117M Inact, 295M Wired, 68M Cache, 112M Buf, 140M Free
> Swap: 2915M Total, 2915M Free
>
>
> —
>
> Matthew Crocker
> President - Crocker Communications, Inc.
> Managing Partner - Crocker Telecommunications, LLC
> E: matthew at corp.crocker.com
> E: matthew at crocker.com
>
>
> > On Jul 28, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Mike <mike+jnsp at willitsonline.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 07/28/2016 12:50 AM, Adam Vitkovsky wrote:
> >>
> >> And on how effective is the NPU's lookup process, that is how effective
> is the actual lookup algorithm with CPU cycles and memory accesses, some
> NPUs can even offload complex lookup tasks to a specialized chip.
> >>
> >
> > I appreciate your presence on other forums, but I'm pretty sure nobody
> here needs a basic explanation of how modern router platforms work. If you
> missed it, the question was specifically about juniper and bang for the
> buck and routing bgp on 10g and filtering.
> >
> > Some folks helpfully suggested using strategies to to decrease the
> required size of the FIB, potentially meaning a lower box could do that
> job. That has some merit, as the OP was right in that for this job I don't
> really care about timbuktu more as whats 'close' to my two ip transit
> providers. I know nothing of juniper and I'm just wondering if MX80 is
> enough box for this or if I need to go higher up in the food chain. The one
> iptransit provider at my 'A' location appears to originate about 20
> networks from various netblocks and this would be easy to statically enter
> into config while accepting defaults from both, achieving the same net
> result.
> >
> > Mike-
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