[88208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router upgrade for small colo provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Jan 24 23:28:05 2006
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:27:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E1F1a32-000PO4-EK@trinity.supernews.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> I have some of these running with combinations ranging from 5
> full-routes sessions + iBGP through to 2 full + iBGP + 70+ peers. You
> don't need to be nervous about the MSFC2's ability to do BGP (though
> for serious work you do want the maximum memory in both the MSFC2
> _and_ the Sup2 (512M and 256M respectively) - the 256M on the Sup2 is
> _important_ if you're going to have full routes).
It's actually 512M on both. With later/bigger IOS versions, you might
actually utilize >256M on the Sup2. Max both out at time of purchase so
you don't have to take it down later for upgrades.
#remote command switch show mem
Head Total(b) Used(b) Free(b) Lowest(b) Largest(b)
Processor 448543E0 393919520 108659576 285259944 273392008 211623448
I/O 8000000 67108880 10353328 56755552 56755552 56755512
That's from a WS-X6K-SUP2-2GE.
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