I wanted to post this in response to several of the threads about "how many peers can I have", "how much resources does BGP consume," etc. It's not that this gives the answers, but it does have 42 pages of information (a fair bit of technical tutorial) on just defining the problem so a meaningful measurement can be made.
That measurement, incidentally, will be valid only for a specific test setup. When you get into serious capacity planning, I recommend either getting a knowledgeable opinion (which could be from Cisco sales as long as you have someone clueful), or benchmarking. The team hopes this is the final before it goes to the RFC editor and gets a number. > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt >Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:28:15 -0400 > > >A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts >directories. >This draft is a work item of the Benchmarking Methodology Working >Group of the IETF. > > Title : Terminology for Benchmarking BGP Device >Convergence in > the Control Plane > Author(s) : H. Berkowitz et al. > Filename : draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt > Pages : 42 > Date : 2003-7-3 > >This draft establishes terminology to standardize the description of >benchmarking methodology for measuring eBGP convergence in the >control plane of a single BGP device. Future documents will address >iBGP convergence, the initiation of forwarding based on converged >control plane information and multiple interacting BGP devices. This >terminology is applicable to both IPv4 and IPv6. Illustrative >examples of each version are included where relevant. > >A URL for this Internet-Draft is: >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt > >To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to >ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. > >Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username >"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, >type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt". > >A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in >http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html >or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt > > >Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. > >Send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt". > >NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. > > >Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader >implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the >Internet-Draft. > > >[The following attachment must be fetched by mail. Command-click the >URL below and send the resulting message to get the attachment.] > >[The following attachment must be fetched by ftp. Command-click the >URL below to ask your ftp client to fetch it.] > Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=71846&t=71846 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
