Re: BGP question

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () darkwing uoregon edu>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Henning Brauer wrote:

> * adrian kok <adriankok2000 () yahoo com hk> [2004-11-10 21:32]:
> > 2/ I saw article. "a full BGP feed is about 110,000
> > routes."
>
> we're at 140..150k these days.
>
> > Do you have experience that AMD64 with 3G memory in
> > Unix Box can handle it?

If you'll look a what the route-views boxes do, a bigish pc based server 
can take 45 full feeds with minimal performance implications. 
They're dual p4 boxes with 2GB of ram. They do not of course make 
forwarding decisions based on that information.

> I've done it on a soekris box, that is, a 266MHz Geode CPU with
> 128MB RAM, using OpenBSD and OpenBGPD...



>

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