[43063] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: outside the box Was: The Gorgon's Knot.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph T. Klein)
Fri Sep 28 17:49:07 2001
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Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:41:22 +0000
To: "Dave O'Shea" <doshea@telentente.com>,
"Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer@gitoyen.net>
From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
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At 15:56 -0500 28-09-2001, Dave O'Shea wrote:
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>I guess the model that comes to mind is something like MAE-West, which
>at one time was using something like a pair of Sparc-20's to handle
>several hundred various BGP sessions, and left the packet shuffling to
>hardware that was designed for the purpose.
I don't think the route server can do hundreds of BGP sessions.
I belive the route servers have problems with more than 60 BGP
sessions. The limitation is a function of CPU power, memory, and bus
architecture.
Jeff Haas is the guy to talk to about realistic models for route
servers.
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Joseph T. Klein +1 414 915 7489
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Adelphia Business Solutions joseph.klein@adelphiacom.com
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