[24556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Peering Info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Golding)
Wed Jul 14 11:09:31 1999
From: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@cypresscomm.com>
To: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:04:21 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
You can say that again. I tried taking partial routes from Sprint with a
3640 with 32MB. Crash! They are providing 60K routes on a partial view these
days. I just bit the bullet and paid for 128MB for all my BGP speaking
routers....
- Dan Golding
----- Original Message -----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: BGP Peering Info
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 11:43:03PM -0500, Michael P. Lucking wrote:
> > Cable & Wireless USA
> > http://infopage.cw.net/Routing/addbgpinfo.html
>
> Interesting statement #1:
> What routes do you want to hear from us?
>
> Backbone Routes (2 routes)
> Customer Routes (approximately 11,500 routes)
> Full Routes (approximately 35,000 routes)
>
> > Sprint
> > http://www.sprint.net/maint/bgprequest.cgi
>
> Interesting statement #2:
> Option Number of Routes CPU/Mem. Requirement
> No Routes 1 (default) 2501/3000 or equivalent
> Partial Routes 20,000 2501/3000 or equivalent
with 16+meg memory
> Full Routes 45,000 4000 or equivalent with
64+meg of memory
>
>
> I'm not trying to point out an error, although they should
> be updated. It's just amazing how quickly things get out of date
> and don't get updated.
>
> --
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
> Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
> Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
>
>
