We are not on an IX, but I have a J2320-JH (Upgraded to 2gb ram) which can see 1101380 routes and has 6 peers attached (2 Internal, 4 External).
Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthias Gelbhardt Sent: 20 August 2008 09:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [j-nsp] router for IX I think we will start small and will use a J6350. Then when it will be needed we will upgrade to the advanced license. We will just have a small throughput in the beginning, so a M7i or greater would not be needed in the first place. Matthias Am 20.08.2008 um 08:37 schrieb Mark Tinka: > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 16:41:24 Matthias Gelbhardt wrote: > >> 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. > > I think the number of BGP sessions you can have is > subjective, and depends a lot on the environment. > > I would imagine having more than 90 BGP session if you were > receiving no more than a couple of routes from each of the > peers. > > At my previous employer, we once had a C box that carried 99 > sessions, most were a couple of hundred to a few thousand > routes, with two or three carrying full feeds - and this > was with a processor that I can say is not as powerful as > the Intel ones running on the J-series today, both being > software platforms and all. > > The M7i would still handle BGP in software, since that's a > control plane feature. > > So it comes down to how many routes you'll be receiving from > each of your peers, how optimized your BGP configuration > will be, how late the code you'll be running is and how > (un)stable those peers are likely to get. > > Cheers, > > Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by REDScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp