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 :)
- Original Message
> From: Patrick Studer
> To: "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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