Let me be the devil's advocate: why would you need full Internet routing? Taking reasonably sized neighborhoods of your upstreams (AS paths up to X AS numbers) plus a default to your best upstream might do the trick.
Ivan http://www.ioshints.info/about http://blog.ioshints.info/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 6:42 PM > To: nanog list > Subject: BGP Growth projections > > I'm looking for new core routers for a small ISP and having a > hard time > finding something appropriate and reasonably priced. We don't have > huge traffic levels (<1Gb) and are mostly running Ethernet > interfaces to > upstreams rather than legacy interfaces (when did OC3 become > legacy?). > > Lot's of choices for routers that can handle the existing BGP > tables - but not so much in small platforms (1-10Gb traffic) > if you assume that > IPv6 is going to explode the routing table in the next 5 > years. The > manufacturers still seem to think low traffic routers don't > need much memory or CPU. > > What projections are you using regarding the default free > zone over the next 5 years when picking new hardware? > > -- > > Mark Radabaugh > Amplex > 419.837.5015 x21 > [email protected] > > > >
