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

Chad Scott (chads@livingston.com)
Sat, 4 Jul 1998 05:57:12 -0700 (PDT)

On 3 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:

> Depends, were you the target, or where you the intermediary? You will
> need to trace the traffic to find out. You should definitely turn off
> directed broadcasts on your 3640.

Nah. No need to trace traffic. Do a 'show inter' on the interface in
question. If there's a ton of traffic outbound, you're the intermediary.
If there's a ton of traffic inbound, you're the target.

> A 3640 is rated to handle 50 kpps. But you need to make sure the router
> doesn't bury itself (over buffering) when interfaces get maxed.

50 kpps? 50,000 pps? What type of interfaces do you have on this 3640,
OC12? That's *ALOT* of packets per second.

Chad Scott
Beta Engineer
Lucent Technologies

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