What BGP setups need to be optimized

Answer is per router:

  • how many peers;
    10

  • how many routes in routing table;
    /ip route print count-only
    1978010
    /ipv6 route print count-only
    43565

  • is there also OSPF,MPLS, VPLS, RIP etc running on the router;
    OSPF

  • what are the hardware specs;
    CCR1036-8G-2S+

  • are there routing filters;

yes

  • average BGP update rate from upstream peers;

20-30k / h

  • average amount of traffic forwarded over the router;

200Mbit

  • are there frequent BGP bgp peer flaps,

no

  • any other info that is relevant to routing and can be useful for optimization.
    no really

Feature requests:

  • something like “show ip bgp summary” integrated … using the script from the forum is ok, but it is slow
  • Faster search for prefixes .. e.g. I want to check where a route goes it takes minutes not seconds
  • better monitoring via SMNP
  • Netflow v9 origin-as and peer-as