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<p>we just replaced our Cisco CSR BGP Routers (10Gig) with FRR:</p>
<p>- 4 CPUs (3year old XEON) 2 CPUs would be enough there is no cpu consumption except if the bgp sessions is bulding its table again.<br />- 8GB RAM. only 1.8GB are in use<br />- 10Gig disk space</p>
<p>All on a VMware Debian VM (Default configuration except of VMWare Tools and ARP Cache of debian)</p>
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<p id="reply-intro">On 21.02.2019 13:30, Steuer Heribert wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">thanks for your reply. I think it would be quite useful for users to have an overview of proven hardware setups. Control-plane is finally just one part of the game. We finally want to replace some<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">old Cisco edge routers with a handful of BGP peers (all full table) for IPv4 and IPv6. Bandwidth per port does not exceed 10gbps, but to be honest I do not know how FRR will perform without any optimized data-plane in this setup.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;">Von: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; color: black;">Donald Sharp <sharpd@cumulusnetworks.com><br /><strong>Datum: </strong>Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2019 um 13:23<br /><strong>An: </strong>Steuer Heribert <steuer@patronas.com><br /><strong>Cc: </strong>"frog@lists.frrouting.org" <frog@lists.frrouting.org><br /><strong>Betreff: </strong>Re: [FROG] Hardware Requirements<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is not something that we've put together at this point in time. FRR works quite nicely on all modern processors but you seem more concerned about data plane forwarding, which while understandable, is not something we have a bunch of control over. As I understand it using something like XDP or DPDK works quite nicely as accelerators for packet processing, it is just not something I have experience with.<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 7:20 AM Steuer Heribert <<a href="mailto:steuer@patronas.com" rel="noreferrer">steuer@patronas.com</a>> wrote:<!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; color: #00379e;">for using FRR with VPP & underlying DPDK, is there any "working hardware" list which goes beyond "use Intel NICs"? I am aware of some white box lists provided by NOS vendors but was not able to find anything about native FRR. I´ve found some posts of <a href="http://cloudscale.ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cloudscale.ch</a> where they mentioned appliances from a vendor named Lanner (which I never heard of before). Its not about advertising vendors but more kind of a "known-to-work-well" list.</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif; color: #00379e;">In addition it would be nice to chat on Slack, please invite </span><span style="font-family: 'Apple Color Emoji'; color: #00379e;">😊</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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