I would pick up an old J-series to play with. The JunOS CLI and
configuration structure is extremely intuitive.
Once you've found your way around the CLI, I would work through Team
Cymru's JunOS templates:
http://www.cymru.com/gillsr/documents/junos-template.htm
It's not really clear from your email but it looks like you are saying
that you are maxing out your Fast Ethernet interfaces. Is this right?
What is your average packet size? What services are running on the box
(BGP, firewall etc)?
Even the fastest 2800 model (2851) can barely push 100mbps of
Your feature set (IP Base) does not support BGP.
Also you'll need more than 256MB of RAM to take full tables. Taking
full tables for 1mbps or 2mbps transits seems like overkill, but this
depends on your application and requirements.
2800s are software based routers that don't have a very
I agree with the point that you will need more memory for full table,
but afaik know, the ISRs can do BGP with IP Base
(http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/is
r.pdf).
Greets, Bernd
Campbell, Alex schrieb:
Your feature set (IP Base) does not support BGP
