Re: 1GE L3 aggregation

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

If it’s 100% for redundancy, why not just ECMP defaults and not take a full table?

That will allow you to use a MUCH cheaper router with a much simpler configuration.

Owen

> On Jun 22, 2016, at 13:04 , David Charlebois <dcharlebois () gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello
> I'm curious about the overall recommendation when selecting a small class
> BGP router for IPv6 (with 1gig ports). We can see the current IPv4 routing
> table is around 615k routes and the IPv6 routing table is sitting around
> ~31k routes.
>
> In our case, we advertise a single /24 from our head office to 2 upstream
> providers. The routing is %100 for redundancy.
>
> Somebody mentioned that the Brocade CER-RT was once a best seller. Brocade
> are now offering the CER 4X-RT version at 256K IPv6 routes supported (1.5M
> IPv4 routes). We don't have immediate plans for IPv6, but I do foresee this
> in a few year. Question is - is 256k IPv6 routes suitable?
>
> Thanks
> Dave