[138494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Julien Goodwin)
Tue Mar 8 20:08:18 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:08:06 +1100
From: Julien Goodwin <nanog@studio442.com.au>
To: Chris Enger <chrise@ci.hillsboro.or.us>
In-Reply-To: <D5E85FC66B6AFB4683BFC1476DDB09F20224293F25@rex.w2k.ci.hillsboro.or.us>
Cc: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: jgoodwin@studio442.com.au
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 09/03/11 11:57, Chris Enger wrote:
> I did look at a Juniper J6350, and the documentation states it can handle 400k routes with 1GB of memory, or 1 million with 2GB. However it doesn’t spell out how that is divvyed up between the two based on a profile setting or some other mechanism.
It's a software router so the short answer is "it isn't"
With 3GB of RAM both a 4350 and 6350 can easily handle multiple IPv4
feeds and an IPv6 feed (3GB just happens to be what I have due to
upgrading from 1GB by adding a pair of 1GB sticks)
If you need more then ~500Mbit or so then you would want something
bigger. The MX80 is nice and has some cheap bundles at the moment; it's
specced for 8M routes (unspecified, but the way Juniper chips typically
store routes there's less difference in size then the straight 4x)
>From others the Cisco ASR1k or Brocade NetIron XMR (2M routes IIRC) are
the obvious choices.
