[AusNOG] powerful routers in core/edge routing/switching

Ankit Agrawal ankitagrawals at gmail.com
Tue Feb 12 12:06:36 EST 2013


Yes, they will hold it but you would never want your upstream to go down and
routes to converge :)

Ankit.

From:  Brad Evans <brad at delion.com.au>
Organization:  Delion Pty Ltd
Reply-To:  <brad at delion.com.au>
Date:  Tuesday, 12 February 2013 8:46 AM
To:  <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] powerful routers in core/edge routing/switching

    
 VS-S720-10G-3CXL and WS-SUP720-3BXL will do 1m IPv4 routes.  I think you'll
find 500k is the limit for IPv6 routing table.
 
 -Brad
 
 
On 12/02/2013 11:37 AM, Randil Wijerathne wrote:
 
 
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> routing table already ~ 435k
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> If you are looking for density of sub-10GbE ports and just BGP / OSPF then
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> 10GbE ports then Nexus should also be on your review list too.
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> On 12/02/2013, at 10:27 AM, Ankit Agrawal <ankitagrawals at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am after some powerful routers (with possible switching) that can hold
> multiple IPv4/IPv6 tables and forward say ~200 Gbps of throughput preferably
> all in hardware. This will be pure BGP/OSPF calculations for next hops, route
> convergence and forwarding. I know MLX ports can act as switching ports so
> that will mean I don't need a separate switching layer which is a bonus.
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> Guess, instead of having a L3 switch that can do routing, I want a router that
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