Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-10 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Chris Woodfield rek...@semihuman.com wrote: I think this is the point where I get a shovel, a bullwhip and head over to the horse graveyard that is CAM optimization... The classic problem with any sort of FIB optimization is that you can't optimize every figure

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-10 Thread Blake Hudson
My concern is trying to find a router (within our budget) that has room for growth in the IPv6 routing space. When compared to the live table sizes that the CIDR report and routeviews show, some can't handle current routing tables, let alone years of growth. BGP tweaks may keep us going

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-10 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: My concern is trying to find a router (within our budget) that has room for growth in the IPv6 routing space. When compared to the live table sizes that the CIDR report and routeviews show, some can't handle current routing tables, let

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-09 Thread Bill Blackford
Chris, With address exhaustion and deaggregation, the table is only going to get bigger so choosing anything now that can only handle anything south of 1M routes is not a wise investment. Several posters have recommended ASR1002 and MX80. I use both of these platforms in my environment and have

RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Enger
Enger Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations Chris, With address exhaustion and deaggregation, the table is only going to get bigger so choosing anything now that can only handle anything south of 1M routes is not a wise investment

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Woodfield
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

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-08 Thread tsi...@gmail.com
have you looked into juniper networks? - Reply message - From: Chris Enger chr...@ci.hillsboro.or.us Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 5:15 pm Subject: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations To: 'nanog@nanog.org' nanog@nanog.org Greetings, I am researching

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-08 Thread Julien Goodwin
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.

Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-08 Thread Julien Goodwin
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

RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table size considerations

2011-03-08 Thread Chris Enger
[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