John T. Yocum wrote: >> >>> 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 > > What sort of performance data are you looking for on the RE? The RE > isn't involved in the actual packet forward forwarding, the PFE (Packet > Forwarding Engine) is. > > --John >
John, What specifically does the RE do, if not packet forwarding? Sorry for the lack of clue here, we are coming from the Cisco world where the NPE generally does it all. --Mike _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
