On 7 May 2011 at 11:02, Jon Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2011, Support wrote: > > > Can anyone give me their recommendation for current hardware to take 2 x > > full BGP feeds over 1Gb/s ports with a third Gb port for the local network? > > > > I did this about 6/7 years ago with a Cisco 7200VXR NPE300 256MB RAM > > but I'm guessing things have moved on??? > > The NPE300 won't handle full routes anymore or the volume of traffic > you're likely to want to move with multiple gig ports. > > You mentioned 3 1gb ports, but not how much traffic you expect to be > moving (or what sorts of features you need). A 7200VXR with NPEG1 or G2 > might do. A 6506 with Sup720-3bxl (or better) and a 6408A or 6516-GE-TX > (depending on your cabling needs) would easily do it.
We've guestimated around 150Mb/s total transit to start, probably moving up to 300Mb/s as a maximum, so nothing too drastic. Minimum is 3 x 1Gb/s ports, but will probably want to expand that later and add another two gig ports. Feature wise, BGP (and later iBGP with OSPF) is the most important as it's a border router. The ability to put access lists in to block unwanted traffic, IPv6 capability and trunked VLANs are all desireable. Thanks to all who have responded so far. Chris
