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Mikrotik RouterOS and CPU usage

There always is a lot of talk about Mikrotik RouterOS CPU usage. I wanted to take a few minutes and go over a real-world example and explain some of the ins and outs when discussing Mikrotik CPU usage. Let’s talk about the router in question. This is a CCR1016-12s-1S+. This is a 16 core 1.2GHz per core and 2GB RAM tilex based router. It is currently pulling in 1,764,849 IPv4 routes. There are two transit provider BGP feeds, multiple direct peers, an Internet...

November 9, 2020 by j2sw Equipment Mikrotik

Hurricane Electric Route Filtering Algorithm

The following is from http://routing.he.net/algorithm.html . This outlines the criteria HE.NET uses for filtering routes from peers and customers. This is the route filtering algorithm for customers and peers that have explicit filtering: 1. Attempt to find an as-set to use for this network.1.1 Inspect the aut-num for this ASN to see if we can extract from their IRR policy for what they would announce to Hurricane by finding export or mp-export to AS6939, ANY, or AS-ANY.1.2 Also see if they set what...

Don’t try this at home kids. Automated BGP Optimization

https://radar.qrator.net/blog/as10990-routing-optimization-taleConclusion? Do not try to optimize the routes with automated software – BGP is a distance-vector routing protocol that has proved, throughout the years, its ability to handle the traffic. Software, wanting to “optimize” the system involving thousands of members would never be smart enough to compute all the possible outcomes of such manipulation.

July 30, 2020 by j2sw BGP Networking

Network troubleshooting tools

Recently, there was a thread on the NANOG list asking what were somne favorite network troubleshooting tools. I have taken many of these tools and created the following list. http://ping.pe/Simple pingport and dig commands https://mtr.sh/BGP Looking glass https://perfops.net/mtr-from-worldTraceroute from various hosts on the net http://www.traceroute6.net/IPV6 tools (ping,traceroute,etc) https://dnsviz.net/Carious DNS tools http://irrexplorer.nlnog.net/Routing Registry object explorer https://mxtoolbox.com/DNS and Mail tools

July 16, 2020 by j2sw BGP Networking Tools WISP xISP

Hurricane Electric now requires IRR and filters invalid RPKI

If you are a Hurricane Electric customer you may be receiving e-mails like the following: What does this mean for you as a service provider? If you use Hurricane Electric as transit or peer with them on an exchange you will need to have ROAs for your blocksand have routing registry objects. I did a tutorial based upon Arin which can be found at: https://blog.j2sw.com/networking/routing-registries-and-you/ In short you need to do the following: Create a mntner object (equivalent of a user account) to give you...

July 6, 2020 by j2sw BGP Data Center IPV6 Networking news peering

CCR1016 BGP route pull down

This morning I had a Mikrotik CCR1016 where I had to change the router ID, which caused all the sessions to reset. The following is a screenshot of the time it took to re-learn all of the peers. Obviously, the smaller prefixes were learned pretty quickly. It took about 10 minutes to learn two full IPv4 route tables and about 5 minutes to learn the IPv6 routing tables. This is why I always get full routes plus a default from the upstream when...

June 29, 2020 by j2sw Equipment Mikrotik

Mikrotik BGP firewall rules for security

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May 30, 2020 by j2sw BGP Mikrotik Networking