On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Seth Mattinen wrote: > It'll handle BGP just fine with more memory (do the 512 meg), but it > won't be able to do 100 meg of traffic. My guesstimate for average > internet traffic based on my experience with a 3640 is 15 meg.
One thing to keep an eye on is the BGP scanner process. Carrying multiple full feeds of 220k+ routes will cause the CPU to thrash when running that process. It's something to consider, especially on a router that 1) doesn't have an especially fast CPU, by today's standards, and 2) does everything BGP-related in software. If the BGP Scanner process can't complete within 60 seconds, it will become an ongoing problem. I don't have direct experience with this exact setup, but about 4-5 years ago, I recall a 3640 with max memory becoming seriously unhappy carrying two full feeds at a time when a full feed was around 130k routes. The BGP Scanner process was chewing up lots of CPU time. jms _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
