The ability to use MikroTik’s new generation of CCR routers with ARM64 to quickly process BGP routes is a blog post all to itself and we’ll tackle that in the future – however, the information below provides a quick look into the performance comparison between ROS v6 and v7. The new routing stack in v7 has created quite a buzz in the MikroTik community as lab tests have shown that it’s significantly more efficient in processing large numbers of BGP routes. We’ve been putting together this lab for a while and here is the topology so far.One of the long awaited benefits of RouterOS version 7 is a new routing protocol stack that enables new capabilities and fixes limitations in RouterOSv6 caused by the use of a very old Linux kernel. This lab is part of a larger effort to test all areas of MikroTik RouterOS v7 on a variety of different hardware. We will include full table perf tests for IPv4 and IPv6 in the future. IPv6: We are currently developing a route generator that will inject IPv4 and IPv6 routes into the test route but it’s not out of development yet.

The specific connectivity is in the overview drawing below. Lab overview: The lab consists of (2) CCR2216 routers running ROSv7.2 stable connected to a ProxMox hypervisor that runs (4) Linux route generators and MikroTik CHRs (also on 7.2) acting as border routers. This was tested under a 25 Gbps load on both routers with a cpu load of 12%. TLDR 2.1 million routes learned and forwarding in 46 seconds and withdrawn in 44 seconds. Hope this is helpful and look for more BGP perf tests in the coming months! When the CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ was released and MikroTik entered the world of 100G, we ordered some right away to test and just got them in the lab a few days ago – the results are below. Testing BGP performance is a long process of lab and prod evaluation, so we decided to run some quick and basic tests to get a baseline.

One of the long-awaited features is improved BGP performance and the ability to leverage multiple CPU cores. MikroTik has come a long way since the first release of RouterOS v7 beta.

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