ISPs?

Christopher Arnold chris at arnold.se
Thu Mar 19 16:06:06 PDT 2009



On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Christopher Arnold wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> In production, at 0.00% interrupt, 686Mbps, <2% load, 133Kpps.
>
How many interfaces are you routing inbetween?
Btw, what are the ballpark prices for those appliances. Please reply 
offline if you fell it is sensitive to share.

> That said, next week I will be turning up my first IPv4 session that
> will receive full routes. It would be handy to test this out before
> deploying in full production.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there anyone here who could possibly help out this
> ISP do a test?
>
> Is anyone in a position to possibly eBGP multi-hop a full table to a
> route server I have internally here? Of course I would completely
> null-route the learnt routes, obey any no-export communities, and forbid
> my internal route server from distributing the routes into the network.
>
Shure no problem, give me a host and you will receive a table from London.
AS39779  ip 87.117.214.90

> Nice to see some ISP discussion for a change ;)
>
Very nice.


 	/Chris


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