Our main core/edge router is a Supermicro with E3-1230v2 quadcore cpu, power usage is like 115 watts, we are running always 6 to 15% peak hours cpu usage very stable using 5.26 version, we tried 6.4 but failed hard, with packet loss, and other reboot problems.

we have 40-60 Mbps traffic, 22k pps, 500 firewall rules, 150 queues rules, BGP, etc.

my question is... should I bother upgrading this to cloudcore router 16 or 36 cpu version?

thanks

The other issue is DDoS, we occasionally get about 1 million pps bandwidth udp attacks where we null route the ip, when this happen cpu is 25 to 35% usage until we apply the null-route then is back to 5% wondering the behavior in a cloudcore router.

in my opinion, dont touch a running system.
It sounds you are statisfied with your setup.
If your CPU will be constantly at 50-60% then think about some new hardware.

What is your main target when you change the system?

I would strongly advise you to test any cloudcore in a test environment before rolling to production. While I think it has great potential any lockups or port flapping would be unacceptable. I currently use dual core 3ghz routers for the edge. the dual core 3Ghz run around 15%-20% load at 300Mbps. Next month we are upgrading to a i7 x86 w/ 8 Gigabit ports and a PCIe 10 Gbps SFP+ for our incoming. As far as DOS goes. If you ever get a real DOS I would doubt many routers could handle it. We have had 1 Gbps of incoming DOS and it just fills the entire pipe we get from our upstream provider and saturates us out. The best way to mitigate is to get a BGP blackhole from your upstream and then announce out the IP block thats getting hammered to the the blackhole and the upstream blackholes everything destined for that block. Hopefully you are announcing out other blocks that are unaffected and can still utilize those to surf to some degree. but with the various attacks that are present now they can take out a monster router with little to no effort. at one time I thought a big giant router was near invincible that was until we were sent 1Gbps of DOS.

Regards,
Josh

Our main core/edge router is a Supermicro with E3-1230v2 quadcore cpu, power usage is like 115 watts, we are running always 6 to 15% peak hours cpu usage very stable using 5.26 version, we tried 6.4 but failed hard, with packet loss, and other reboot problems.

we have 40-60 Mbps traffic, 22k pps, 500 firewall rules, 150 queues rules, BGP, etc.

my question is... should I bother upgrading this to cloudcore router 16 or 36 cpu version?

thanks

Dear Fran66,

could you please send me exact model number and setup of Supermicro server you are using ?
I'm starting be crazy from CCR1036. Thank you

Vaclav