[79416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router choice for medium size hosting provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Apr 6 20:21:02 2005
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <42547B4E.8040305@amplex.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Do you need BGP? That's going to make a big difference in what you
> want to use. An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would
> be helpful as well.
A 2811 will do BGP just fine... 760mb of RAM and plenty of CPU. In terms
of interfaces, it can nominally take four GigE and eighteen 100Base-T
interfaces, though I believe it's only rated for 4.8gbps total throughput.
How real that number actually is I don't guess we'll know until someone
tries it in the lab. I haven't had time yet.
-Bill
