BGP Peering Info

Wed Jul 14 15:04:21 UTC 1999

You can say that again. I tried taking partial routes from Sprint with a
3640 with 32MB. Crash! They are providing 60K routes on a partial view these
days. I just bit the bullet and paid for 128MB for all my BGP speaking
routers....

- Dan Golding
----- Original Message -----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org>
To: Nanog <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: BGP Peering Info

>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 11:43:03PM -0500, Michael P. Lucking wrote:
> > Cable & Wireless USA
> > http://infopage.cw.net/Routing/addbgpinfo.html
>
> Interesting statement #1:
>     What routes do you want to hear from us?
>
>          Backbone Routes (2 routes)
>          Customer Routes (approximately 11,500 routes)
>          Full Routes (approximately 35,000 routes)
>
> > Sprint
> > http://www.sprint.net/maint/bgprequest.cgi
>
> Interesting statement #2:
>           Option            Number of Routes      CPU/Mem. Requirement
>           No Routes           1 (default)         2501/3000 or equivalent
>           Partial Routes        20,000            2501/3000 or equivalent
with 16+meg memory
>           Full Routes           45,000            4000 or equivalent with
64+meg of memory
>
>
> I'm not trying to point out an error, although they should
> be updated.  It's just amazing how quickly things get out of date
> and don't get updated.
>
> --
> Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org
> Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
> Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request at tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org
>
>