On Friday 21 May 2010 05:16, Lorell Hathcock wrote: > I am inheriting a WISP network with Mikrotik equipment throughout. One of > my first duties is to make the network multihomed. We have our first > internet connection at one location and our second internet connection will > be delivered at a second location in a week or so. [snip] > My question is about BGP on the Mikrotik platform. The guy who I am > supplanting swears that we are supposed to be bringing the second internet > link to the same place as the first internet link for BGP to work properly. > Obviously that is not true with major brand routers
And it is not true with Mikrotik either... I work for a WISP that uses Mikrotik almost exclusively, everything from our core to customer CPEs. We have multiple Mikrotik edge routers at diverse locations, with 200+Mbs internet connections thru different providers, all running full BGP feeds, and all sharing those feeds between each other. A simple 1U box with a good MB, 1-2GB RAM, flash drive for booting, and good multi-port Gb ethernet cards for each is all that is needed. We are a small ISP by most standards, but we have had no problem running 180Mbs and 40,000pps in/out on just one of our edges, while carrying on with multiple BGP feeds and exchange between our internal routers. Adrian
