From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 19 15:35:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 336D61065672 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:35:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christian@errxtx.net) Received: from um3k.errxtx.net (um3k.errxtx.net [IPv6:2001:41d0:1:b543::feed:face]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FB638FC21 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christian@errxtx.net) Received: from pd957c979.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.87.201.121] helo=tok) by um3k.errxtx.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1LkKHP-000BCz-Mz; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:35:35 +0100 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:35:31 +0100 From: Christian Meutes To: Christopher Arnold , Peter Spekreijse Message-ID: <17AF069575D7E2B24912CFBA@tok> In-Reply-To: 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> <5F9EF08A583352985E262800@tok> <49C24561.5090301@spekreijse.net> <49C253FE.3010408@ibctech.ca> <49C2583D.30502@spekreijse.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Steve Bertrand , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISPs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Christian Meutes List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:35:38 -0000 I am also very interested in pps with IMIX type of traffic you are having. How does FreeBSD with $preferred_BGP_daemon scales on IX with dozens or=20 hundred of peers and having two or more full feeds? How fast is the convergence in IGP/BGP? And how do you guys do=20 configuration changes without interrupting everything (reloading daemon)? --On Donnerstag, 19. M=C3=A4rz 2009 15:54 +0100 Christopher Arnold=20 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? > >> 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/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"