[106440] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Stebner)
Mon Jul 28 17:19:58 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:19:35 -0700
From: Chris Stebner <chris.stebner@gmail.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
In-Reply-To: <488E28D4.3020806@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jack Bates wrote:
> Chris Stebner wrote:
>> This solution can most be definitely be had for under 5 grand. with
>> the RSP4+'s (ECC mem) youd be looking at greater than 99.99 percent
>> uptime if configured with SSO.
>
> But if you end up needing BGP with full routes, throw that out the
> window. The RSP16's are expensive (even used relative to the RSP4) and
> usually necessarily for memory due to the current global routing table
> size. They are still cheap on the used market compared to list of most
> vendors, though.
>
> Jack
I was "assuming" some level of route filtering/summarization as he did
mention a single t1/t3 (at least used the word "link" - singular). Good
point though, if you need more than 512mb mem, your gonna have to shell
out the extra $10k for the pair of RSP16's
-chris
