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Re: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 orother vendor ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Apr 25 07:58:43 2004
To: petelists@templin.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:49:23 -0400"
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 13:58:07 +0200
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> > I bought a Riverstone Rs-3000 for BGP with a single upstream provider.
> > Great Deal.
>
> Yeah, it might be a Great Deal (tm), but you're in for some surprises.
> I've seen an RS-8600 (with CM3 and 512MB on board) nearly melt under
> 13Mbps of Nachi, to the point that I had to set the CM failover
> keepalive timer to >30 seconds.
This should come as no surprise - the Riverstone boxes are flow-based.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
