[138511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Mar 9 01:31:12 2011
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:31:02 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: frnkblk@iname.com
In-Reply-To: <007a01cbde21$00ba0870$022e1950$@iname.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/8/11 10:12 PM, Frank Bulk wrote:
> That's 1M IPv4 routes, IIRC. Put IPv6 into the mix and that 1M quickly
> shrinks.
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>> 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.
>>
Mx80 Doesn't use CAM for route lookups and the actual number of routes
is 72MB of RLDRAM holds will vary based on the distribution of sizes but
it's north of 2 Million ipv4 routes.
> The NetIron XMR will get you 1,000,000 routes.
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