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

[Roy-Magne Mo <rmo@...>]

On on , 2004-06-16 at 17:12 +0200, Erik Hensema wrote:
> 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

That's not a small router, keep the Summit 1i or such and do the the
routing on a Juniper M7i. Use vlan/802.1q tagging between the switch and
the router.

Not cheap, but still not expensive.

-- 
Roy-Magne Mo







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