topic Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP? in Firewall and Security Management

Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

Blason_R — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:03:31 GMT

Hi Team,

I am about to enable BGP peering with router and will be receiving around 6000 number of routes from that router. Wondering my firewall with model 6900, 32GB RAM and R80.30 can accept those many routes?

Will it cause any adverse effects on routes processing or BGP daemon?

Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

the_rock — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:08:53 GMT

I had seen customer with 10K + routes and worked fine.

Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

Chris_Atkinson — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 23:26:16 GMT

Does the topology necessitate that you must see the specific granular routes or can they be aggregated/summarised/filtered?

Sometimes we do things just because and that's fine, but is it really needed...

Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

Blason_R — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 02:28:44 GMT

That is the option already communicated to ISP if they can summarize the route and send it to us

Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

Maarten_Sjouw — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:24:30 GMT

I have one setup with OSPF where we see around 7800 routes in 1 VS.

Re: Can Check Point firewall accept around 6000 number of routes through BGP?

Blason_R — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:29:11 GMT

Thanks and it worked as expected. This was a not a problem.