[AusNOG] Juniper vs Cisco vs Brocade - what's best for BGP routing?

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Hi

Add my 2c, so I have been deploying routerOS in VM’s.

Personally I like the interface, love the cost

And it seems to be doing all the things I want.

BGP, I am taking a full table from 2 up streams (soon to be 3). Also got OSPF working well, interfacing with my Cisco & Dell kit

I am moving from hardware, the cost and the rack space doesn’t work for me.

We are a virtualisation house, and the numbers in regards to throughput are not bleeding edge.

Currently I have been getting around 600Mbps through one of these routers (600 in and 600 out) that’s on 2 virtual interfaces in ESX 5.5, my initial test point to routersOS not being the bottleneck… 1 set of disks, behind a iSCSI server .  Over the next couple of weeks, I am commissioning some 10G dark fibre, it will be interesting to see if I can push these to their max with routerOS.  The biggest hurdle is the fact they have to special VMware network drivers …..


I was pointed to routerOS from this mailing list.

There are some idiosyncrasies, the firewall is state full, which can be a pain when using VRRP, already given some feedback on that
I would like to see better config management.

I probably would have built a linux router solution than spend the money on hardware.

Alex


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim G
Sent: Wednesday, 11 December 2013 6:09 PM
To: Skeeve Stevens; Matt Perkins
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Juniper vs Cisco vs Brocade - what's best for BGP routing?

Skeeve; also, just as another note, I would prefer to be sent from a reseller to a vendor's presales engineering team then be sold hardware and/or configuration that will not work in a specific environment.

Don't be scared of Vyatta… the software will work wonders with cheap hardware ($3-6k for two boxes). I have a CCR1016-12G board from Mikrotik (this is one of the "Cloud Core" branded boards) sitting at home and if you are looking for something inexpensive it might not be a bad route (heh!) to go.

RouterOS supports VRRP for setting up a master/slave virtual router with only around three lines of config. (OSPF/RIP is also supported… apparently. I could never get it to work correctly.)

Two Cloud Core's will not set you back more then $1,500, and it will give you throughput of ~ 3Gbps…

Can't speak for Juniper/Cisco gear, but IMHO GBP Multihoming is easier to set up on Mikrotik then on Brocade: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Simple_BGP_Multihoming

Regards,
Tim


On 11 December 2013 at 5:40:05 PM, Skeeve Stevens (skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com<mailto://skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com>) wrote:
Just a note.  If a reseller can't answer some basic technical questions, they shouldn't be selling the product in the first place.
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