How stable is the Routing-test Package for production ?
When is it planned to make it the main MT ?
Anybody used this package with bgp and had any problems ?
Will the advanced bgp features show up in winbox or only via telnet ?
Please advise.
I think that routing-test is in working state, but as a whole I can’t claim MT 2.9.x is in production state.
About routing-test problems you cat raad this: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/is-it-a-bug-of-bgp-advertising/3537/1
I have a 2.9.5 MTrouter in a production environment and it does not have serious problems that I can see. However if you browse this forum , you can see that it’s a suicide to upgrade to 2.9.x version in case that you are using wireless cards.
I hope MT team will fix the problems with Wir. cards as soon as possible.
Thanks for the heads up. Im not using any wireless but definately using bgp . Use 2.8.28 but 2.9.x is progressing and I was wondering whether its stable enough to handle it. More specifically whether the routing test will work . We dont want our production environment to go down and so I would like to get an idea of how safe it would be.
Even in 2.8.28 I have to use prefixlists to prevent the router from advertisisng everything to the neighbours. Tried everything else and I am only using advertise networks (dont even have advertise connected selected) .
Lets hope they improve this pretty quick.
As stated before, i’m interested in a working 2.9 advanced BGP implementation, too.
for usability & management overhead issues, i would prefer managing BGP / OSPF over GUI rather than over CLI. (nevertheless, wouldn’t be a K.O. criteira, i’m coming from foundry and zebra CLI, thus used to it…)
i believe in using MT as a powerful edge router with BGP + gigabit capabilities and three-digit packet forwarding rate, when:
a) kernel is supporting Rx polling technique (NAPI) and SMP
b) BGP and OSPF protocols are fully implemented at quagga / zebra level
c) queues and rules kept to a minimum (< 100 Rules as a raw figure)
d) hardware is at top-rate level. (e.g. Dual Pentium XEON and Intel Gigabit NICs, PCI-X 133 Dual Bus)
what do you think???
-Frank
Dual xeons dont work. Rather MT doesnt take advantage of dual processors and HT.