Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:54:28 +0100 (CET) From: Christopher Arnold <chris@arnold.se> To: Peter Spekreijse <peter@spekreijse.net> Cc: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISPs? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903191554160.5077@localhost> In-Reply-To: <49C2583D.30502@spekreijse.net> References: <153046.19925.qm@web63901.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <907077794.20090317173752@homelink.ru> <49C05E35.8070609@ibctech.ca> <001501c9a795$07058de0$1510a9a0$@com> <49C1C3D0.5060304@neely.cx> <CC6BF6C0-D134-4DE6-9D47-17E01AA71BBB@ekalb.net> <5F9EF08A583352985E262800@tok> <49C24561.5090301@spekreijse.net> <49C253FE.3010408@ibctech.ca> <49C2583D.30502@spekreijse.net>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Peter Spekreijse wrote: >> Peter Spekreijse wrote: >>> We do use it for routing, using FreeBSD, booting from flash, running >>> completely in RAM. We have created a solid state BGP/OSPF router with >>> FreeBSD. Our border routers run Quagga (bgp and ospf) but we are in the >>> process of moving to OpenBGPD / OpenOSPFD. Our internal routers already >>> use OpenOSPFD. We are using Network Appliances from portwell as hardware >>> (8 * 1 Gbit/sec ethernet). We're in process of testing other appliances. >> What thruput and PPS are you seeing on theese? > We've two full bgp tables in our border routers (275K+ prefixes per table). > The quagga version we use get's real busy if one of our BGP peers disappears > suddenly. It starts recalculating the routing table and neglects the BGP > sessions. Sometimes the other BGP sessions time-out, then we lose every > route. > Opps very bad... Have you tried going SMP so one CPU can dio the BGP thread and the other forwarding and updating the route table? Or are you using polling(4)? In that case have you tried to give more % of the CPU to the userland processes? /Chris -- http://www.arnold.se/chris/
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