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Re: Juniper M10i sufficient for BGP, or go with M20?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Mon May 14 05:56:13 2007

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:52:15 +0200 (CEST)
To: neal@lists.rauhauser.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <4647799D.9010305@lists.rauhauser.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


>     M7i is a very, very attractive lab/spare box, but this company wants 
> carrier class - dual engine M10i are the minimum.

An M10i will handle a full routing table just fine. Note that as with
other hardware based forwarding boxes memory on the RE is just one of
several resources you need to verify.

These days I would probably recommend the RE-850, which runs just fine
in both M7i and M10i, and comes standard with 1.5 GByte memory.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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