[180043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pavel Odintsov)
Wed May 20 09:47:12 2015
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 16:46:12 +0300
From: Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov@gmail.com>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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We could cut full BGP and select only important prefixes with ExaBGP.
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> On 20/05/2015 14:32, Cody Grosskopf wrote:
>> I haven't tried myself but some of the stuff Cumulus Linux is doing is
>> pretty amazing, not certain quagga can or should handle full bgp table but
>> you could probably get a Penguin 10gbe for less than 8k.
>
> quagga (or whatever RIB manager you want, e.g. bird) isn't the issue. The
> issue is that these switches have limited hardware FIB capacity and if you
> attempt to put a full table on them, they won't accept it.
>
> Nick
>
>
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Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
