Hardware Server requirements for building up BIRD

Isaac HO isaacho.jc at gmail.com
Tue May 28 08:50:41 CEST 2019


Dear Cybertinus,

Thanks a lot for the captured information.

I can report to my boss the fact Thanks a lot.
Isaac

Cybertinus <bird at cybertinus.nl> 於 2019年5月28日 週二 下午2:36寫道:

> Hello Isaac,
>
>
> The network I'm maintaining has the following amounts of BGP sessions:
>
> # birdc show status | head -n 1
> BIRD 1.6.4 ready.
> # birdc show protocols | wc -l
> 216
> # birdc6 show protocols | wc -l
> 211
>
> The specifications of this router:
> Dell R610
> 2x Intel Xeon E5520
> 24 GB RAM
>
> The current load on it:
> # free -m
>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache
> available
> Mem:          24102        2602       18968         266        2531
> 20822
> Swap:          2447           0        2447
> # uptime
>  06:26:57 up 13 days, 13:02,  1 user,  load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.10
> So, basically it is old crap hardware (this server is easily 10 years old)
> and it takes the load with ease. So if you double the amount of BGP
> sessions, I wouldn't worry if you buy new hardware.
>
> Kind regards,
> Cybertinus
>
>
> On 2019-05-28 04:57, Isaac HO wrote:
>
> Dear All,
> Would you mind suggesting the hardware configuration to us?
>
> Please find our BGP sessions status for your reference:
> IPv4 Session 600 (around)
> IPv6 Session 400 (around)
>
> Thanks,
> Isaac
>
>
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