Route reflector/server appliance for access router aggregation

2010-07-13 Thread Eric Morin
Hi I working on a solution to offload my current internet facing, and soon to be backbone, routers from terminating IBGP sessions from aggregation network routers. I currently have 4948s (pizza box version of the cat4500) in place, mostly bridging traffic, but some routing (OSPF, couple dozen

Re: Route reflector/server appliance for access router aggregation

2010-07-13 Thread Jack Carrozzo
On the subject of route reflection, I've run into a few people happy with Quaggo or openBGPd on intel hardware. You can throw a 1U box together with dual PSUs, a bunch of ram, and SSD/CF disks for far less than a C or J setup and won't be wasting money on ASICs you aren't using. If I recall

Re: Route reflector/server appliance for access router aggregation

2010-07-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
On 2010.07.13 10:06, Jack Carrozzo wrote: On the subject of route reflection, I've run into a few people happy with Quaggo or openBGPd on intel hardware. You can throw a 1U box together with dual PSUs, a bunch of ram, and SSD/CF disks for far less than a C or J setup and won't be wasting money

Re: Route reflector/server appliance for access router aggregation

2010-07-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On 13 Jul 2010, at 15:06, Jack Carrozzo wrote: On the subject of route reflection, I've run into a few people happy with Quaggo or openBGPd on intel hardware. You can throw a 1U box together with dual PSUs, a bunch of ram, and SSD/CF disks for far less than a C or J setup and won't be