<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Here is my x86 router configuration:</div><div><br></div><div>OS: FreeBSD 10.2 64bit</div><div>Bird 1.6.3</div><div>CPU Intel E5-2609v2</div><div>Memory 16GB</div><div><br></div><div>Here is top result for bird:</div><div><br></div><div><div>27 processes: 1 running, 26 sleeping</div><div>CPU: 13.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.8% system, 1.7% interrupt, 83.6% idle</div><div>Mem: 504M Active, 112M Inact, 875M Wired, 518M Buf, 14G Free</div><div>Swap: 3852M Total, 3852M Free</div><div><br></div><div> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND</div><div> 6278 root 1 52 0 455M 440M select 3 1:23 20.65% bird</div><div> 6294 root 1 20 0 60124K 48616K select 0 0:24 0.10% bird6</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>bird> show route count</div><div>1356504 of 1356504 routes for 633512 networks <<-- still updating the routing table after restarting protocols</div></div><div><br></div><div>Your hardware is more than enough but if you consider to handle high traffic or packets per second it's a different.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br>
Best regards,<br>David S.<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Clément Guivy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clement@guivy.fr" target="_blank">clement@guivy.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="FR" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_5040777195978580492WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hello, I am considering the setup of BIRD as a router to handle our internet traffic. One information I fail to find is hardware requirements. My use case is as follows :<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5040777195978580492MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Two transit providers, each sending a full internet view<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5040777195978580492MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Two peerings on an IXP (less than 100k routes each)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5040777195978580492MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">One iBGP session between the two BIRD routers<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5040777195978580492MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">One eBGP session to our internal network (advertising a default route and receiving less than 500 internal routes)<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="m_5040777195978580492MsoListParagraph"><u></u><span lang="EN-US"><span>-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><u></u><span lang="EN-US">Traffic would be less than 1Gbps but as I understand it, this is relevant to forwarding plane and therefore out of the scope of BIRD.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Which kind of hardware would be fit for that ? especially regarding CPU and RAM. I was considering an entry-level server with low-end Xeon CPU (E5-2603, 1.7Ghz 6 cores) and 8GB RAM, does that look sufficient, insufficient, or overkill ? I can’t really tell. By the way, is BIRD able to use multiple cores ? and are there hardware requirements to be careful of, disregard CPU and RAM ?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Regards,<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Clément Guivy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></font></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>