[123242] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Redundant BGP for lower cost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Mar 4 13:13:06 2010
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 13:12:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Alex Thurlow <alex@blastro.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B8FEB0F.5060107@blastro.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alex Thurlow wrote:
> 2. Buy a Cisco/Juniper/whatever and then have the Quagga box as backup.
> 3. I have a 6500 behind the router that's just doing switching. Could I have
> something switch that to static route all traffic to one of my providers if
> something happened to the router? The 6500 has Sup1A with MSFC2 running IOS
> native.
>
> On the Cisco side, I see that we could probably run a 7200VXR with NPE-G1
> (about $6000 on ebay). Moving to the Sup720, even used is probably out of
> our price range.
If you were to upgrade the 6500 to a Sup720-3bxl or better, it would be a
far superior platform for handling multiple gigabit ethernet circuits and
full BGP than the NPE-G1. Sadly, the sup720 and required power supply and
fan card upgrades would cost more than that 7200/NPE-G1, but it'll route
considerably more traffic. I don't think you're going to get line-rate
GigE from the G1. You will with the 6500.
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