Looking at two 100Mbit/s BGP connections, so I think I want something that will do more than 100 but nowhere close to a gig. So full routing table capability with throughput of mixed traffic around 200Mbit/s. If that makes sense. Do the 2850s fall into that sort of price point? Adel On Mon 11:13 AM , Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca> wrote:

On 2009-11-09, at 19:53, adel@baklawasecrets.com wrote:

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You will laugh, but the budget at the moment looks like £13k. Impossible? Do only linux and openbsd solutions remain in the mix for this pittance?

I don't see an indication of the traffic you need to push (maybe I deleted a message too enthusiastically) but check the 2800 series from cisco. The 2850 will take full tables and has gigabit interfaces, but don't expect them to do wire speed. Other 2800s suffer from reduced RAM, but perhaps you don't need full tables.

Also look at Juniper J-series boxes, and maybe Force10 S-series boxes.

There's a healthy market in used cisco gear in most places I have ever visited, if you don't need new.

Joe