Phil Sykes wrote: > My 2c's worth inline: > > > - M5, M10, M20, or M7i - what is my best bet for the traffic >> levels mentioned above? We need the basics - BGP, OSPF, GRE >> tunnel capability, and some basic ACLs. Nothing fancy like MPLS, etc. > > All of the above are capable of handling the traffic levels mentioned > without any issues. > GRE Tunneling will require a tunnel PIC or an M7i with an integrated > AS-PIC, unfortunately.
One other item I forgot to mention -- we will need NetFlow support, if that makes any difference on the platform. > The M7i/M10i are a newer chipset, which is required to support some of > the newest PICs (e.g. 4 port Gig-E IQ2). > They're also smaller and lighter - the original M5 and M10s could have > eaten more salad during the design process. > The M10i also has redundant routing and forwarding blades, which its > predecessor didn't. Understood. > I would imagine used M5s and M10s are going to be most available. Make > sure they are the version with the E-FEB, which supports newer cards > like the SFP-based Ethernet PICs. > Ideally for future-proofing and most cost-effective support of GRE, get > the M7i with integrated AS-PIC. I assume the "E-FEB" is the "Enhanced" FEB? > Watch that M20 and M5/M7i/M10/M10i PICs are not (practically) > interchangable. Is this the "lack of an eject handle" issue I've been reading about? > http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Routing_Engine > > RE-333 (a.k.a RE-2.0) is a minimum as you'll need to be able to install > 768MB of memory to handle full BGP table scaling. Commodity memory will > work, but may not be supported. Unfortunately that URL doesn't really contain any practical performance data for the RE's. I'll keep Googling for some. Thanks for the info. --Mike _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
