I think this is the point where I get a shovel, a bullwhip and head over to the horse graveyard that is CAM optimization...
-C On Mar 8, 2011, at 5:18 20PM, Chris Enger wrote: > Our Brocade reps pointed us to the CER 2000 series, and they can do up to > 512k v4 or up to 128k v6. With other Brocade products they spell out the CAM > profiles that are available, however I haven't found specifics on the CER > series. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Julien Goodwin [mailto:na...@studio442.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 5:09 PM > To: 'nanog@nanog.org' > Cc: Chris Enger > Subject: Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size > considerations > > On 09/03/11 12:08, Julien Goodwin wrote: >> On 09/03/11 11:57, Chris Enger wrote: >>> I did look at a Juniper J6350, and the documentation states it can handle >>> 400k routes with 1GB of memory, or 1 million with 2GB. However it doesn’t >>> spell out how that is divvyed up between the two based on a profile setting >>> or some other mechanism. >> It's a software router so the short answer is "it isn't" >> >> With 3GB of RAM both a 4350 and 6350 can easily handle multiple IPv4 >> feeds and an IPv6 feed (3GB just happens to be what I have due to >> upgrading from 1GB by adding a pair of 1GB sticks) >> >> If you need more then ~500Mbit or so then you would want something >> bigger. The MX80 is nice and has some cheap bundles at the moment; it's >> specced for 8M routes (unspecified, but the way Juniper chips typically >> store routes there's less difference in size then the straight 4x) >> >> From others the Cisco ASR1k or Brocade NetIron XMR (2M routes IIRC) are >> the obvious choices. > And I meant Brocade NetIron CES here.
