[AusNOG] Microtik bgp issues

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Wed Nov 5 11:37:13 EST 2014


Ahhhh, that'd explain why I have one CPU core constantly at 100% :)

Any idea how far away those enhancements are? :)

On 5 November 2014 11:30, Mike Everest <mike at duxtel.com> wrote:

> There is an AU mikrotik mailing list (http://talk.mikrotik.com.au)
> frequented by many mikrotik pro folks who do that kind of thing on a day to
> day basis.  Some of them are also consultants who can take on a project for
> you, plus all of the major distributors usually have engineering team
> available fo that sort of support contract.
>
>
>
> One thing to watch out for, though, is that there does still exist a
> limitation with routerOS that allows only a single CPU core for bgp and
> routing table processing, so for busy routers with large bgp tables and
> regular updates, it is not so uncommon that one cpuy core will peg and
> raouting updates start to suffer.  It does need several tens (perhaps 100s)
> of thousands of route prefixes to show up this problem, but it sure can be
> a showstopper for major nodes.
>
>
>
> Since routerOS is based on linux kernel, updates to kernel code to support
> multi-core enhancements will (apparently) eventually overcome that
> limitation ;)
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> Mike.
>
>
>
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> *Subject:* [AusNOG] Microtik bgp issues
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>
>
> Hi Guys,
>
>
>
> Just wondering if anyone out there has had success with bgp on the
> microtik's and I can pick your brain?
>
>
>
> I've got a CCR1009 and I'm struggling to get the BGP session established.
> Can telnet to 179 on my providers router and it looks like the settings
> I've got are correct but its failing to establish a connection...
>
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> Or anyone do any consulting on list that can give me a (paid) hand at all?
>
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