Hi,
I was wondering if anyone was using a PowerRouter v3 and could give me an idea on how its performance/reliability has been.
We had an utter fiasco trying to use a CCR with 2 full BGP feeds and about 200Mb+ of traffic (constant kernel panics) so we are looking for a replacement piece of hardware.
Will the PowerRouter with only its 8 cores be able to handle that much traffic? Is BGP on x86 still limited to a single core like it is on CCR?

Thanks.

Only initial loading of the BGP table is done on one core. Actual routing works on all cores, as do most other operations in RouterOS.

Kernel panics are not related to hardware. It would be interesing to see which RouterOS version you were using, maybe there was a known bug that was fixed.

Your reply from your support guys was that it was 'defective RAM' which I found hard to believe since I had 2 units that supposedly had 'defective RAM'.
Also, testing the RAM myself with Memtest86 revealed no errors.

anything is possible, maybe it was just a suggestion what to test? I have to see the ticket to tell for sure why they said that

Ticket#2014100166000455

Also if anyone has used the MW-RM1300-i7 - Routermaxx 8 Port Gigabit Core i7 Router I would like to hear about it as well.

jml

Have you tried a netinstall on your CCR's ?

We have had three that were rebooting due to kernel panics, all three were fixed with a netinstall to RouterOS 6.19

I haven't tried netinstall yet.
I'll give that a go as well.

Also if anyone has used the MW-RM1300-i7 - Routermaxx 8 Port Gigabit Core i7 Router I would like to hear about it as well.

What would you like to know ?

We have been using core2duo based units (powerrouter or routermaxx), some of them we have recently replaced with the i7 Versions (needed to to 10g interfaces).

Yes, x86 perform much better than CCR for eBGP, we were running 7 full peers on the core2duo ..
Core2Duo based units will easily handle 700meg to a 1gig of traffic.
Our internal testing shows i7 based units will handle up to 10g as longs as pps is less than 1.2 mil
Core2Duo's will load a full bgp table in about 30-40 seconds.
the i7 will do it in about 15 seconds.

Any other questions ?