[POC] Use Juniper Firefly Perimeter to support RTBH BGP scale with 120 BGP Peers
As Juniper FIREFLY-PERIMETER is an ideal candidate of virtual router solution for RTBH router, because its just need control plane and memory(it will not be limited by hardware) for BGP exchange route with community. No much data forwarding plane packet process was needed. So I rebuild the lab with Juniper firefly to see the difference with physical routers as below topology. In my vmware workstation lab, I assigned two interface to each firefly, ge-0/0/0 was used for BGP connections and ge-0/0/1 was used for SSH purpose only(to be more easier for config copy/paste. The most obviously advantage of firefly is the response time of commit action, it was almost done immediately after you press Enter key when I initialized the configuration clean-up, its great! ...But after I copy & paste all my configurations to it then the response time still became longer. [edit] lab@FIREFLY-PERIMETER-1# run show chassis hardware Hardware inventory: Item ...