Dynamic Routing on VSX

[Vladimir]

I am not sure if this is just my luck or it is a developing trend, but quite a few of my clients are looking to either deploy Check Point as a core routing cluster or to redesign existing implementations for same purpose.

Increasingly, I am hearing questions about dynamic routing in VSX in both, HA and VSLS environments.

Please share whatever experience and words of wisdom regarding OSPF and BGP in VSX.

Thank you,

Vladimir 

[Maarten_Sjouw]

Hey Vladimir,

We are running several VSX clusters with dynamic routing, 2 clusters with a lot of OSPF routes. This use customer has about 8 VS'es with OSPF and a number without. They are still on R77.30 and we did recently make sure that we updated to Jumbo 292, as there were some minor issues, that once every 3 months we lost a couple of routes.

[Vladimir]

Maarten Sjouw‌, thank you for replying.

Can you tell me if you are running multiple blades on those VS' and if there were any gotchas that I should be looking out for?

[Vladimir]

Maarten Sjouw‌, can you check if you are seeing the same behavior in your VSX environment as described here:

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/10227-traffic-is-originating-from-a-vs-with-the-vsx-internal... ?

Thank you.