[115932] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BGP Growth projections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas L. Byrnes)
Sun Jul 12 16:20:58 2009
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:20:33 -0700
In-Reply-To: <4A576F70.9010003@amplex.net>
From: "Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb@byrneit.net>
To: "Mark Radabaugh" <mark@amplex.net>,
"nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Give Vyatta on a decent x86 server a try.
http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/appbrief/Vyatta_app_BGP.pdf
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:mark@amplex.net]=20
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:42 AM
To: nanog list
Subject: BGP Growth projections
I'm looking for new core routers for a small ISP and having a hard time=20
finding something appropriate and reasonably priced. We don't have=20
huge traffic levels (<1Gb) and are mostly running Ethernet interfaces to
upstreams rather than legacy interfaces (when did OC3 become legacy?).
Lot's of choices for routers that can handle the existing BGP tables -=20
but not so much in small platforms (1-10Gb traffic) if you assume that=20
IPv6 is going to explode the routing table in the next 5 years. The=20
manufacturers still seem to think low traffic routers don't need much=20
memory or CPU.=20
What projections are you using regarding the default free zone over the=20
next 5 years when picking new hardware? =20
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Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
419.837.5015 x21
mark@amplex.net
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