[isp-bgp] RE: What small switch/router for full bgp routing table

["M. Aelmans | Synssans" <melchior@...>]

Daniel,

What kind of memory whould be used with an Summit?

THanks,
Melchior
Synssans

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:33, Daniel van Wijnen wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> A Summit 1i does not have official support for 256 MB memory, but you can remove the 128 MB memory module and install a 256 MB module, this will work.
> 
> An other option is create a filter on your Summit and drop all prefixes less that a /24
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel van Wijnen
> Website: http://www.rokscom.nl
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> 
> 
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Erik Hensema [mailto:hensema@...]
> Verzonden: woensdag 16 juni 2004 17:13
> Aan: isp-bgp@isp-bgp.com
> Onderwerp: [isp-bgp] What small switch/router for full bgp routing table
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We're a small starting ISP on a tight budget, and are looking for a 
> switch/router for full bgp peering with abovenet (they advertise 
> 140,000 routes or so) and peering with the about 140 isps on the 
> ams-ix.
> 
> Currently we think the Extreme Networks Summit 1i will suit our needs, 
> but I'm concerned it may have insufficient memory (128MB) to hold the 
> full bgp routing table. As far as I know the memory cannot be 
> upgraded.
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appriciated.
> 
> If the summit 1i won't cut it, this is what we need:
> - 8 1 gbit ports, of which at least two are fiber ports
> - redundancy/failover (we plan on buying two identical routers)
> - must be able to route 1 gbit traffic
> 
> Most equipment we look at is way to big/expensive for our needs :-/







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