Re: [isp-bgp] Cisco alternatives for larger BGP routers?

[James <james@...>]

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:33:26AM -0400, John Lawrence wrote:
> 7206/G1 Should defiantly get the job done. This would come with 4 gige ports
> and a 1GB of memory.

NPE-G1 maxes out at 650Kpps, which is not even a full 1 Gigabit capability
if you are being DDoSed with small sized packets.

Dell PowerEdge 1850 running FreeBSD 4.11 with modified fastforwarding blows
GigE out to physical limit at ~1.4Mpps.

I would honestly go for a used Juniper M5 or pick up an M7i when you start
doing more than 100Mbps of traffic and need to plan for scalability. Or if
you are experienced enough to deal with open source software and caveats,
get a nice FreeBSD box and optimize it :).

-J

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Jones [mailto:howard@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:09 AM
> To: isp-bgp@isp-bgp.com
> Subject: [isp-bgp] Cisco alternatives for larger BGP routers?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking around for routers to run several large (totalling 100Mb+)
> BGP feeds - what do other people use? It's not clear from Cisco's site
> which of their new routers will actually do the job - having been bitten
> before by underpowered Ciscos, I'm a little wary of them. For
> alternatives, so far we've got FreeBSD+PCI-X+Flash (still performance
> testing that out of curiousity), and Foundry NetIron. Are there others
> in this market?
> 
> It'd be for 3 or 4 full views at most, plus a number of private peering
> links. The ability to take 'normal' RAM would be a plus, too :-) Also
> being able to back up a single unified text-based config file.
> Interfaces could be limited to 100/1000BT and possibly 1000SX - it's
> unlikely to need ATM or Sync lines.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas...
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Howard
> 




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