Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption

Jerry Jones jjones at danrj.com
Tue Dec 5 13:18:21 UTC 2017


MX150?


On Dec 4, 2017, at 4:13 PM, C. Jon Larsen <jlarsen at richweb.com> wrote:


On Mon, 4 Dec 2017, Naslund, Steve wrote:

FWIW ...

OpenBSD on a lanner appliance with openbgpd will chew 1G. Especially on the latest version - 6.2.

Debian on the same lanner running bird would also chew that as well.

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of William Herrin
>>> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 3:43 PM
>>> To: Adam Lawson
>>> Cc: nanog
>>> Subject: Re: Small full BGP table capable router with low power consumption
> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Adam Lawson <adlawson at zoho.com> wrote:
>>> The router needs to be squeezed in to a rack which doesn't have a lot
>>> of space nor power. As for space, maybe I can make space for 3U or 4U
>>> but as for power, I can only do around 1.5A at 100V on average. (There is
>>> room for burst power usage.)
> 
>> A Cisco 2911 or 3945 does this though the 3945 is a little more power hungry.
> 
>> A current generation x86 server running Linux and Quagga does this.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
>> --
>> William Herrin ................ herrin at dirtside.com  bill at herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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