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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:59:13 +1000
From: Andrew Fort To: skeeve Cc: Aussie Isp Message-Id: <403FE949-8F73-4893-B68A-A3720E57036D@choqolat.org> In-Reply-To: <200509261351.j8QDpqe20633@mx1.mailsecurity.net.au> References: <200509261351.j8QDpqe20633@mx1.mailsecurity.net.au> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] Zebra for BGP |
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On 26/09/2005, at 11:51 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote: > I'm wondering if the Zebra functionality is up to the task. It > will need to > handle 6 upstreams with at least 4 of them being up to 200mb in > size... > Throughput expected to reach 600mb at times (but possibly more). > The Link > Controller is apparently rated to handle 2GB of throughput, though > I am not > sure how it accomplishes this. in terms of zebra's scalability to handle large numbers of peers, my understanding is that this has been largely resolved, but that route- views originally had issues of scale with their zebra route-server. for example: $ telnet route-views2.oregon-ix.net Trying 198.32.162.102... Connected to route-views2.oregon-ix.net. Escape character is '^]'. Hello, this is zebra (version 0.94). Copyright 1996-2002 Kunihiro Ishiguro. route-views2.routeviews.org> show ip bgp sum BGP router identifier 128.223.60.102, local AS number 6447 939059 BGP AS-PATH entries 10475 BGP community entries Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd 154.11.11.113 4 852 222472 47716 0 0 0 02w5d18h 168324 154.11.98.225 4 852 225484 48620 0 0 0 01w6d17h 168443 157.130.10.233 4 701 4634017 133760 0 0 0 02w5d18h 167023 64.5.1.2 4 14107 8473307 140341 0 0 0 05w1d06h 167543 [etc for many lines] Total number of neighbors 41 -- sounds like it should handle 6 peers. > The scenario is actually 2 * F5 BigIP Link Controllers in Active/ > Active > mode... But finding that Zebra was the choice of BGP has stalled me > momentarily enough to investigate whether that the Zebra > functionality/capabilities can handle the above sort of load. > > On the assumption that we can't upgrade from Zebra to Quagga on the > LC1000, > what is the current state of Zebra - vulnerabilities, etc etc. > > Maybe it would be better to go a Cisco. -andrew ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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