BGP Growth projections
Ivan Pepelnjak
ip at ioshints.info
Sat Jul 11 07:27:08 UTC 2009
Let me be the devil's advocate: why would you need full Internet routing?
Taking reasonably sized neighborhoods of your upstreams (AS paths up to X AS
numbers) plus a default to your best upstream might do the trick.
Ivan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:mark at amplex.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 6:42 PM
> To: nanog list
> Subject: BGP Growth projections
>
> I'm looking for new core routers for a small ISP and having a
> hard time
> finding something appropriate and reasonably priced. We don't have
> huge traffic levels (<1Gb) and are mostly running Ethernet
> interfaces to
> upstreams rather than legacy interfaces (when did OC3 become
> legacy?).
>
> Lot's of choices for routers that can handle the existing BGP
> tables - but not so much in small platforms (1-10Gb traffic)
> if you assume that
> IPv6 is going to explode the routing table in the next 5
> years. The
> manufacturers still seem to think low traffic routers don't
> need much memory or CPU.
>
> What projections are you using regarding the default free
> zone over the next 5 years when picking new hardware?
>
> --
>
> Mark Radabaugh
> Amplex
> 419.837.5015 x21
> mark at amplex.net
>
>
>
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