Re: Quagga

[thomas@powernetix.com]

We are using quagga as core router.
Only one BGP neighbor, and currently using Dual Xeon and 4G of ECC RAM.
First of all, try to use intel NIC card rather than other brand, because
intel NIC card could handle more packet than others like realtek.
secondly, I would suggest you put 1-2G RAM to your router, because you
WILL use other things on router such as SNMP daemon to monitor bandwidth,
CPU usage, memory usage...etc which also take up memory.


>
> Op 4-jul-2007, om 12:26 heeft Carlos Renato Tasinafo het volgende
> geschreven:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I'd like to known if anyone here uses Quagga (BGP daemon
>> particularly) in large-scale ( 6 neighbours - full routing )
>> I'm worried about the performance of the system.  Anyone have any
>> experience?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>
> You shouldn't worry too much about quagga performance (quagga's CPU
> usage won't be a limiting factor, the main limit will be how fast
> your machine can forward packets), and one of the main advantages of
> using quagga is that memory for your typical Linux system is a LOT
> cheaper than Cisco's.
>
> For your reference: I just checked one of our routers, the "zebra"
> process is using 50 MB, and "bgpd" is using about 100. We receive two
> feeds of about 220k routes. So for the current size of the routing
> table I'd guess you need at least 350 MB of memory (6x 50 MB for
> bgpd, and 50 for zebra).
>
> Regards,
>
> Maarten
>
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