[140280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Current recommendations for 2 x full bgp feed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Sun May 8 22:07:15 2011
In-Reply-To: <4DC54DD8.4094.4027BB1@support.comgw.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 19:06:21 -0700
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Support <support@comgw.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Support <support@comgw.co.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone give me their recommendation for current hardware to take 2 x
> full BGP feeds over 1Gb/s ports with a third Gb port for the local network?
>
> I did this about 6/7 years ago with a Cisco 7200VXR NPE300 256MB RAM
> but I'm guessing things have moved on???
Question -
How sure are you that the number of incoming BGP feeds is and will
permanently remain 2 and only two?
I.e., do you need, or conceive of needing, a moderate expansion margin
for the hardware selected?
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
