Re: (PM) Which router to use for BGP-4?

R Gibbons (rkg@empirenet.com)
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT)

16Mb is sufficient to handle full routes on an IRX or PM3 running BGP.
See http://www.livingston.com/Tech/Technotes/200/250005.html#19.

Rich Gibbons
EmpireNet Inc

On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Scott Drassinower wrote:

>
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > Livingston's IRX-114 can handle 2 t1's and 2 56k' circuits and is BGP
> > capable, (actually all are bgp except for the OR series),and the PM 3 can
> > handle 3 t1's with the optional v.35 sync card, PLUS on the PM 3, the
> > CSU/DSUs are built in.
> >
> > And if you are using more than 3 T1's you dont necessarily have to have
> > all of them going to the same router just do to BGP. Its a protocol so the
> > routers can talk to each other. and 16 megs is adequate on an IRX or Pm 3
> > to hold the bgp table.
>
> If he is going to receive full routes from his upstream ISP, 16mb is not
> going to cut it at all. 64mb really is necessary, more than that is
> optimal. I doubt that customer-only routes from a UUNet or MCI will even
> be happy with 16.
>
> I think the most RAM you can fit into any Lucent box that is currently
> shipping is 32mb (a PM3). Dunno about the PM4.

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