[39553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When will 128M not be enough?
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Sat Jul 14 10:55:46 2001
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 10:55:12 -0400 (EDT)
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To: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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It looks like some recent aggregation has been helping to slow down the
growth. In any case, I've got 48MB (out of 128MB) free with 2 full views
and very little else (a few ACLs, OSPF) on a 7204VXR.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Christopher A. Woodfield wrote:
>
> Is there any research out there that tries to estimate how long it will be
> before BGP routers with 128M of RAM start to choke on the routing table? I
> know there are a lot of factors - the number of BGP peers, how much "other
> stuff" the router is doing, etc. - I'm really looking for a ballpark
> estimate, if one exists.
>
> I'm trying to convince someone NOT to use a Cisco 2650 for BGP
> multihoming, and my argument will, IMO, be a bit more effective if
> I can say "you'll need to replace it within X months/years"...
>
> -C
>
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> Christopher A. Woodfield rekoil@semihuman.com
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