Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 orother vendor ?

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sun Apr 25 11:58:07 UTC 2004


> > I bought a Riverstone Rs-3000 for BGP with a single upstream provider.
> > Great Deal.  
> 
> Yeah, it might be a Great Deal (tm), but you're in for some surprises. 
> I've seen an RS-8600 (with CM3 and 512MB on board) nearly melt under 
> 13Mbps of Nachi, to the point that I had to set the CM failover 
> keepalive timer to >30 seconds.

This should come as no surprise - the Riverstone boxes are flow-based.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no



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