[j-nsp] Hardware configuration for cRPD as RR

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Tue Feb 6 11:32:54 EST 2024



On 12/8/23 18:57, Saku Ytti via juniper-nsp wrote:

> Given a sufficient count of path options, they're not really
> alternatives, but you need both. Like you can't do add-path <max>, as
> the clients won't scale. And you probably don't want only ORR, because
> of the convergence cost of clients not having a backup option or the
> lack of ECMP opportunity.

I found that if you run 6 or more paths on an RR client, the need for 
ORR was negated.

But yes, it does put a lot of pressure on the RE, with a 64GB RAM system 
being the recommended minimum, I would say.

Mark.


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