7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput

Tue Feb 11 07:10:23 UTC 2014

Or assuming your using an Ethernet of some sort as your upstream connections you could grab something like a CCR from mikrotik for < $1k and sleep easy knowing you're only using 6% of it's capacity.

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> On 11/02/2014, at 3:52 pm, Octavio Alvarez <alvarezp at alvarezp.ods.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/10/2014 06:05 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote:
>> Are you suggesting getting the default gateway from both providers or
>> getting the full table from one and using the default as a backup on the
>> other (7206)?
> 
> Whatever suits you best. Test and see. I'd just receive the full table
> anyway but filter them out, letting only the default routes go into the
> RIB. This should streamline your FIB. As I say, you lose outbound load
> balancing and your redundancy becomes all-or-nothing, but you save a few
> cycles.
> 
> Again, I wouldn't recommend any of this because of the drawbacks, but
> along with other recommendations that others have made, like Turbo ACLs,
> it may buy you some time.
> 