[138509] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Wed Mar 9 01:12:52 2011
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'George Bonser'" <gbonser@seven.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0BC13FC2@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:12:43 -0600
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That's 1M IPv4 routes, IIRC. Put IPv6 into the mix and that 1M quickly
shrinks.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: George Bonser [mailto:gbonser@seven.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 6:19 PM
To: Chris Enger; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table
sizeconsiderations
> From: Chris Enger
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 4:15 PM
> To: 'nanog@nanog.org'
> Subject: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route table
> sizeconsiderations
>
> Greetings,
>
> 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.
>
The NetIron XMR will get you 1,000,000 routes.
