This is good to know, thanks. We're going to have at least two ISPs possibly add more in the future, and a 100Mb pipe to it, which will grow to 200Mb soon. Right now we only have a DS3 and a lot of the times it gets up to 40Mb. I'm assuming we'll probably be pushing 80Mb easily pretty soon. This is our first BGP experience, we don't want to over buy but we also don't want to get stuck with a unit that's not going to be able to keep up.
*** Rossella Mariotti-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Analyst, SS - SPIR - IT TAC desk 503-589-7775 - cell 503-480-4255 **** PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATION **** This electronic transmission, and any documents attached hereto, may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. The information is intended only for use by the recipient named above. If you have received this electronic message in error, please notify the sender and delete the electronic message. Any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of information received in error is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:08 AM To: Rossella Mariotti-Jones Cc: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] bgp router On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rossella Mariotti-Jones wrote: > Hello all, we're looking to buy a router on which to run BGP that can > take full BGP routes, I know all Cisco routers (1800 up) with Advanced > IP services IOS will do BGP and I've been told that if we max out the > memory we'll be fine with any router. We're going to need some ports (up > to 24) in this router. We're looking at a 7604 with sup720-3b and 1gb of > memory, a 2821 or 2851 with an nme and 1gb of memory, or another > possibility is the ASR platform, but I haven't looked into this well > yet. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance. 7600 and 2800 series are very different beasts. Figure out what sort of throughput/backplane capacity you need and that should point you towards the apropriate platform. If you go 7600, don't buy less than the sup720-3bxl. The older sup720-3b, regardless of how much RAM you put on it, won't properly handle full routes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/