TNSR BGP table capacity

buckweet1980

Has anyone here run TNSR as a border edge router to an ISP? To replace the typical edge Cisco or Juniper box is where I'm headed with this.

I read that TNSR has the performance capacity for speed, but there's no mention of route table capacity.

Derelict

Dependent on RAM. There are people running multiple full ISP feeds. Can always try it using the Home+Lab version.

buckweet1980

Are there any case studies that can be shared with customers? I work for a vendor, and one thing that our portfolio lacks is the internet border device. I'm hoping that this could be positioned for those customers that need this so I don't have go positioning Cisco or Juniper as they're competitors..

Right now when I look on the website, I don't see much about scale when it comes to BGP, or defined use-cases.. If there are some, please let me know where and I'll be happy to take a look..

I've always looked at TNSR with admiration, but haven't been able to test it out until because of the purchasing requirements.. I think you guys are really onto something here with this.

audian

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pimvanpelt

TNSR 20.10 will easily consume multiple BGP full tables, example:

vpp-test# show bgp sum

IPv4 Unicast Summary:
BGP router identifier 194.1.163.7, local AS number 50869 vrf-id 0
BGP table version 1844191
RIB entries 1521801, using 267 MiB of memory
Peers 6, using 123 KiB of memory
Peer groups 4, using 256 bytes of memory

Neighbor        V         AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State/PfxRcd
194.1.163.0     4      50869  146492  110246        0    0    0 00:09:31       130439
194.1.163.1     4      50869   18905  110246        0    0    0 00:09:31       118135
194.1.163.2     4      50869  124916  110246        0    0    0 00:09:31         1527
194.1.163.3     4      50869   49283  110246        0    0    0 00:09:31           13
194.1.163.4     4      50869   49299  110246        0    0    0 00:09:31           11
45.129.224.233  4      58299  132111      11        0    0    0 00:07:51       836183

Total number of neighbors 6

IPv6 Unicast Summary:
BGP router identifier 194.1.163.7, local AS number 50869 vrf-id 0
BGP table version 163503
RIB entries 186439, using 33 MiB of memory
Peers 6, using 123 KiB of memory
Peer groups 4, using 256 bytes of memory

Neighbor           V         AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ  Up/Down State/PfxRcd
2001:678:d78::     4      50869   32391   19366        0    0    0 00:09:31        38666
2001:678:d78::1    4      50869   11392   19366        0    0    0 00:09:31        34712
2001:678:d78::2    4      50869   16616   19366        0    0    0 00:09:31          317
2001:678:d78::3    4      50869    3186   19366        0    0    0 00:09:31            3
2001:678:d78::4    4      50869    3234   19366        0    0    0 00:09:31            2
2a0e:5040:0:2::233 4      58299   32530      11        0    0    0 00:07:55        98031

Total number of neighbors 6

wbaja

I'll add some evidence...

We've had this in production for over a year. 2 10GbE uplinks using this hardware:

https://shop.netgate.com/products/1537-base-pfsense

with a ram upgrade to 32GB and this expansion card:

10 Gigabit Quad-Port SFP+ Intel X710BM2

Version: tnsr-v20.10-1 (need to upgrade to 21.03.... next weekend)

Let me know if you have more questions.