[70024] in North American Network Operators' Group
Hardware for full mesh bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henning Brauer)
Sun Apr 25 21:00:35 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:59:27 -0700
From: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In the light of people dicussing the hardware requirements for running
full mesh bgp with tcmd5 and minimal filtering I just have to point out
what we're doing here currently...
14 OpenBSD developers who hack networking stuff from all over the world
have flown in to enjoy 4 days of coding.
OF course we are also working on our bgpd. As we're a little low on
electrical power here we use a lot of small embedded machines - and I
have full mesh bgp sessions on quite some of those, using tcp md5sig
sessions of course.
check this out: http://somewhere.whereever/pic.jpg
that little green box bob and myself are holding in our hands has a
full feed. It is a 266 MHz Geode with 128MB RAM working off a CF card.
Getting the session established and the full table transferred takes
less than 8 seconds...
