On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:53 PM, James Smallacombe <up@3.am> wrote:
I have a customer that is looking at using BGP for their network; one connection over a few bonded T1s, the other over a Comcast Enterprise connection (which supposedly will do BGP now).
When I was dual homed a few years ago, a 7204VXR with 256MB was more than adequate. With routing tables growing the way they are, what's a good Cisco based solution on the lower end of the price spectrum that should handle this fine for a few years?
I use 2811s in a couple of similar configurations. One of them currently uses about 400M of the 768M ram with 4 BGP feeds and "soft-reconfiguration inbound." Another with just one BGP feed and soft-reconfiguration takes about 300M. Needs a minute or so to recover from one of the BGP links dropping but otherwise it keeps up with my light-weight traffic just fine. In both cases the packets are cpu-switched and normal CPU load (when a link isn't collapsing or returning) is under 10%. -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004