[138489] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Tue Mar 8 19:19:12 2011
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:18:33 -0800
In-Reply-To: <D5E85FC66B6AFB4683BFC1476DDB09F20224293F21@rex.w2k.ci.hillsboro.or.us>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Chris Enger" <chrise@ci.hillsboro.or.us>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Chris Enger=20
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:15 PM
> To: 'nanog@nanog.org'
> Subject: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table
> sizeconsiderations
>=20
> Greetings,
>=20
> I am researching possible replacements for our Internet edge
> routers, and wanted to see what people could recommend for a smaller
> chassis or fixed router that can handle current IPv4 routes and
> transition into IPv6. Currently we have Brocade NetIron 4802s pulling
> full IPv4 routes plus a default route. I've looked at Extreme,
> Brocade, Cisco, and a few others. Most range from 256k - 500k IPv4
and
> 4k - 16k IPv6 routes when CAM space is allocated for both. The only
> exception I've found so far is the Cisco ASR 1002, which can do 125k
v6
> along with 500k v4 routes at once. I'm curious if any other vendors
> have comparable products.
>=20
The NetIron XMR will get you 1,000,000 routes.
