After a certain point you'd stop caring about how many peers you have and start caring about the number of routes involved. We have some m7i's cfeb at 20%CPU/60%Heap with 1.2M total.
-Ben >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:29 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >Subject: Re: [j-nsp] router for IX > >Hi Matthias > >I don't know where you could find the limit on the M7i but >like you said it's the next smallest router after the Jseries, >but it has a big difference which is it's an hardware based >router opposed to the Jserie. > >I have on one of my customer's network some M7i with about 65 >peers , 7 external BGP and 58 internal working fine. >These router are not connected to he Internet but are >exchanging up to 13000 routes with peers. > >I think that this router will do the job for you but more >precisely you will need to have a look of the throughput you >would like to have globally on your router (globally the M7i >will be about 7Gig of throughput, well in fact you can connect >5 Giga interfaces fully loaded without problem). > >Hope this help >Regards >Alain > > >-----Message d'origine----- >De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de >Matthias Gelbhardt Envoyé : mardi 19 août 2008 10:41 À : >juniper-nsp Objet : [j-nsp] router for IX > >Hello! > >We would like to connect to an internet connection point (IX). >Unfortunatly I have seen in the datasheet of the J-Series, >which we use at the moment, that that system can only handle a >maximum of 40 bgp peers, which is of course unsufficient, if >we will use it to connect to an IX, where we thing to get at >least 80 peers. > >Unfortunatly on the other datasheets of the other routers we >do not see any information about the maximum number of peers. >Is anyone here who can me give an information? I think the >next smaller router would be the M7i. > >Regards, > >Matthias >_______________________________________________ >juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >_______________________________________________ >juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > *************************************************************************************** The information contained in this message, including attachments, may contain privileged or confidential information that is intended to be delivered only to the person identified above. If you are not the intended recipient, or the person responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, Windstream requests that you immediately notify the sender and asks that you do not read the message or its attachments, and that you delete them without copying or sending them to anyone else. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
