[189085] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP peering strategies for smaller routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Tue May 3 17:10:46 2016
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
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William Herrin wrote:
> IMO, you should not accept that answer from the TAC. An IOS release
> that crashes with two 600k BGP feeds in 4 gigs of RAM is badly
> defective.
I suspect the time the OP would spend raging down the phone would be
better spent sourcing a third party memory upgrade to 8G or 16G. The
upgrade would certainly be the cheaper option of the two, in addition to
being the only option with a useful outcome.
Nick
