On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 12:44 PM ADNS NetBSD List Subscriber <nanog2@adns.net> wrote:
Also, we’d like to ditch our 3640 router in favor of a smaller “desktop” size router, but none of them seem to do BGP (not surprising). Any recommendations on hardware would be welcome as well
I can think of lots of smaller, even desktop sized routers that have no problem doing BGP assuming you're only taking a single transit circuit and only accepting a default route from your upstream provider. Ubiquiti's tiniest EdgeRouters which cost around $100 will do BGP just fine under those circumstances if you're not pushing tons of traffic or pps. If you want something a little nicer/fancier, you can get a Juniper SRX (probably a 300, 320, or 345 depending on how much bandwidth you're going to use). If you want to run multiple transits and take full tables, then at that point I'd recommend going a bit bigger: maybe a Juniper MX or a Cisco ASR. But even the higher-end Ubiquiti EdgeRouter series products can handle full tables if you understand and accept their limitations in doing so if budget is a huge concern but you still need to take full tables. Take care, Matt