Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations

2019-08-09 Thread Pieter De Wit
Shall we throw in the Cisco N540 for good measure? Not sure how it stacks up on pricing but doesn’t look like a bad box otherwise... Sent from my iPhone > On 9/08/2019, at 14:27, Tony Wicks wrote: > > Could recommend you a Nokia but I suspect the price point would make you spit > out your be

Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations

2019-08-09 Thread Tim Warnock
> -Original Message- > From: nznog-boun...@list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog- > boun...@list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Pieter De Wit > Cc: NZNOG Mailing-List > Subject: Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations > > Shall we throw in the Cisco N540 for good measure? You may not. Unless

Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations

2019-08-09 Thread Scott Weeks
--- t...@wicks.co.nz wrote: From: "Tony Wicks" Could recommend you a Nokia but I suspect the price point would make you spit out your beer. -- Yes it would, but those things are great. I use 7750/7450/7210/etc every day and I love them. scott

Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations

2019-08-09 Thread Tony Wicks
Yep, but one issue with the Nokia is there is not really something that terribly comfortably fits the bill for the OP anyway. The closest affordable unit would be a 7750-a4 (lets say 50k once you have the cards/licences/support) which is a 100G FDX (or a8 200G) unit which is fine but 2.5M routes wi

Re: [nznog] 2019 BGP router recommendations

2019-08-09 Thread Mike Jager
I cannot agree more strongly with the suggestion to sit down and think about whether you need to carry what's getting on for 800k IPv4 routes in your FIB. Most networks (globally, but very definitely in NZ) simply do not, and end up spending an order of magnitude or two more on equipment to cra