Hi
As allready requested (see our post from 17.09.), we are looking for a solutions, which will bring us the possibility to be multi homed and get full routing table from two isp and peerings to an exchange point.
We now have an offer for an refurbished 7206VXR with NPE-400 and 512 MB Memory. Would that be enough, to hold two full routing table (if needed) and peerings? We think, there are around 300K prefixes around know, so it should be okay? Right?
We will install two of them (each one connected to one of the upstream provider). Between both, we will do IBGP. On the router, we just will have BGP, some small ACLs, perhaps some QoS. That's it.
The idea behind that solutions is, that if the NPE-400 wouldn't be enough in 1-2 years, we can just exchange the NPE-400 against a NPE-G2. Since the NPE-400 is really cheap, we don't lose too much money, when we will exchange it in 1-2 years.
Thanks for any inputs.
Kind Regards
Patrick Studer
if I recall it correctly, 512MB was already too tight for full BGP about 3 years ago or so... maybe that's why npe400 is so cheap :)
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From: Patrick Studer p.studer@x-netconsulting.ch To: "swinog@lists.swinog.ch" swinog@lists.swinog.ch Sent: Mon, October 12, 2009 4:42:00 PM Subject: [swinog] Follow Up Full BGP Routing Router Requirments
Hi
As allready requested (see our post from 17.09.), we are looking for a solutions, which will bring us the possibility to be multi homed and get full routing table from two isp and peerings to an exchange point.
We now have an offer for an refurbished 7206VXR with NPE-400 and 512 MB Memory. Would that be enough, to hold two full routing table (if needed) and peerings? We think, there are around 300K prefixes around know, so it should be okay? Right?
We will install two of them (each one connected to one of the upstream provider). Between both, we will do IBGP. On the router, we just will have BGP, some small ACLs, perhaps some QoS. That's it.
The idea behind that solutions is, that if the NPE-400 wouldn't be enough in 1-2 years, we can just exchange the NPE-400 against a NPE-G2. Since the NPE-400 is really cheap, we don't lose too much money, when we will exchange it in 1-2 years.
Thanks for any inputs.
Kind Regards
Patrick Studer
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