[AusNOG] Assistance in picking a router

[Tom Lanyon]

Hi Ayden,

On 18/07/2013, at 9:22 AM, "Beeson, Ayden" <ABeeson at csu.edu.au> wrote:
> We currently use a 4500-X as our primary net device and it collects a full BGP v4 and v6 route table with no problems at all and its capable of 10gb/s on all its interfaces.

Just curious - you say a full table via BGP on your 4500-X device, but my understanding is that they have a maximum 256K IPv4 and 128K IPv6 FIB entries which should be well exceeded with a full v4 table - are you filtering prefixes from the FIB?

Cheers,
Tom