>From my previous uunet experience a 3640 with 128mg of RAM is capable of
handling full routes from both ISP's.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Neiberger wrote:
> We have a 3640 with 128MB that is multihomed to Sprint and Verio, but we are
> taking customer routes only, which amounts to about 46,000 routes. The 3640
> hardly even knows that it's turned on most of the time. The current
> 5-minute average cpu usage is 5%, which is a little higher than normal. As
> far as memory goes, we have close to 90MB free. Assuming that the full
> internet routing table is about 105,000 routes now, we have almost 25% of
> that. Approximately 8 MB of DRAM is being used for the BGP table.
>
> So, you're probably okay taking full routes from two providers on a 3640
> with 128MB DRAM. But, do you really *need* full routes from both? Could
> you get by with customer routes, or even default routes?
>
> In our situation, there just was no need to take full routes from both
> providers. We simply take customer routes from both and then I have a
> default route pointing to the better ISP to handle unknown routes.
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if a 3640 with 128MB can handle dual T1's with full BGP
> > routes... anyone have any experience with this? Are there any concerns
> > I should be aware of?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
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