ISPs?

[Steve Bertrand]

Christopher Arnold wrote:

>>> 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?

Currently:

- 7 physical 'em'
- 6 loopback
- 1 discard
- 14 sub-ints off of the em devices

> Btw, what are the ballpark prices for those appliances. Please reply
> offline if you fell it is sensitive to share.

This particular one:

http://www.mikrotikrouter.com/732.asp

I paid ~$1500 CDN for.

I have other custom ones, and even some that are simply 2U servers
stuffed with NICs.

I'm sure I could get up to 500Kpps if I really tried.

>> 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

Wow! Beautiful!

208.70.111.101 AS14270

I'll have this set up this evening ;)

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

Myself, I could do without the server-side stuff anymore. I really enjoy
the network side of things. I'm pushing us through a relatively major
transformation in our network right now from topology down.

I'm glad this discussion came up, as some people give you a virtual
dirty look when you say you are a smaller ISP and use host-based routers
to push packets.

Cheers!

Steve