I previously ran a single 7609 with dual Sup720's as a Core Internet BGP Router, running OSPF & iBGP Never had any problems and was a very stable platform Stephen Bailey - Senior Lead Systems Engineer FUJITSU Fujitsu Services Limited, Registered in England no 96056, Registered Office 22 Baker Street, London, W1U 3BW This e-mail is only for the use of its intended recipient. Its contents are subject to a duty of confidence and may be privileged. Fujitsu Services does not guarantee that this e-mail has not been intercepted and amended or that it is virus-free. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Wininger [mailto:jwininger@indianafiber.net] Sent: 17 July 2009 22:23 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router. I have an opportuniy to put two 7609s into the core of my network. Currently we have 3 upstream providers, taking full BGP routes. (2 in one router and one in another). We have 17 BGP peers/customers (peering to each router), and adding about one new BGP peer every 2-3 months. It is a modest network by most standards. We are running OSPF and BGP between the existing routers. Not rocket science, nothing special (no MPLS, no VRF etc), very simple network. Does anyone have any recommendations on the 7600's as a core BGP router? Good or bad? Have they been a stable platform in a core/BGP environment? -- Jim Wininger