[j-nsp] Hardware configuration for cRPD as RR

[Thomas Scott]

Also very curious in this regard.

Best Regards,
-Thomas Scott


On Wed, Dec 6, 2023 at 12:58 PM Vincent Bernat via juniper-nsp <
juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> Hey!
>
> cRPD documentation is quite terse about resource requirements:
>
> https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/crpd/crpd-deployment/topics/concept/crpd-hardware-requirements.html
>
> When used as a route reflector with about 20 million routes, what kind
> of hardware should we use? Documentation says about 64 GB of memory, but
> for everything else? Notably, should we have many cores but lower boost
> frequency, or not too many cores but higher boost frequency?
>
> There is a Day One book about cRPD, but they show a very outdated
> processor (Sandy Lake, 10 years old).
>
> Is anyone using cRPD as RR with a similar scale and can share the
> hardware configuration they use? Did you also optimize the underlying OS
> in some way or just use a stock configuration?
>
> Thanks.
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