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RE: (ASCEND) BGP 4 ? (fwd)
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, MegaZone wrote:
> I'll state for the record that the PortMaster-3 is quite capable of
> 'mainline routing' and is being used as such by a number of sites. And
> it will run multiple full BGP views (45K+ routes) in 16MB of RAM. You can
> use one port for dialin and another for a leased line if you want.
Not that I don't believe you, but I'd love to see that in action. It's
impressive if it does work. What's the mem size per route.
> >If all your links are in the one location get yourself either a Bay
> >ARN or a Cisco 2500 series and run BGP 4 to your heart's desire.
>
> Will a 2500 series take a full view from BGP? I thought I'd read that you
> needed a higher level Cisco to take full views.
Nope. For one full routing table they reccomend 32 megs of ram, though in
reality it would take up less than that. But, the Cisco 2500 series tops
out at 16 megs if I'm not mistaken.
> -MZ
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Joe Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
NetAdmin - Insync Internet Services
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