[AusNOG] RouterBoard

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

Hi

Maybe, its rated a lot higher although  it doesn't specify single tcp session.

My main target for this is Backups, Vmotions, large file transfers and storage sync replication.

When I use my L2 Dell switches in L3 mode (arg that is a pain), I can achieve 2-4Gb/s normal every days use ...
When I swap out the dell and put in the CCR it's a lots less..

So from there I tested with iperf...  I don't think it's reasonable to limit single tcp session to < 1Gb/s, I'm hoping it's a software issue.

I didn't really want go into the network side of things, but we have 10G from the edge in.

Alex


From: James Braunegg [mailto:james.braunegg at micron21.com]
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2014 11:17 AM
To: Alex Samad - Yieldbroker; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: RE: RouterBoard


Dear Alex



To be honest 1gbit for a single TCP/IP session for such a cost effective router in my eyes is excellent .... I'm actual surprised it's that fast !



I would also take into account that when you require a router your more than likely in a network envrovment where you will have multiple streams of TCP / UDP sessions anyway so testing a single session on a single device is something you would never see in the real world of routing.



I also would question what is downstream from your router, if your servers only have 1gbit nics then this will be your bottleneck, and then how much bandwidth are you buying upstream , this would be another bottleneck.



My third question is what "core" are you trying to build ? what is the application  ?



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Subject: [AusNOG] RouterBoard



Hi





So I have tested routerOS ... in VM and also bought the ccr1036.



I'm not 100% happy with the ccr1036.  Basically can't push 1 tcp stream past 1Gb/s I can get 8-9Gb/s with multiple streams. I can get UDP up to 9.8Gb/s



I like routerOS interface (have to admit I like the vyatta better from what I saw).



But now I need to find something similar to these devices around the same price and around the same performance, I would like to push it all to a VM but Brocade want my 1st and 2nd child ...



So routerOS support is nowhere close to Cisco and rightly so for the price, so I have some hesitancy in rolling these things out, especially if they are going into the core.



So are there any suggestions from the list ?



Alex



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