AW: [nsp] Router for a route server/reflector?

[Alexander Lucke]

Hi Matthew,

we are operating a local peering point in Berlin with about 20+ peers at the
moment. There we use two cisco 72xx as route servers. 

Of course they are stable and performing well but unfortunately - the
"transparent AS" feature which Arnold uses with his Zebras - is not possible
with Cisco!

And, especially if you get bigger peers who peer at multiple IXes, you will
run into problems without that feature (or they won't simply use your route
servers at all ;-)

So please don't use Cisco - or any other device which can not offer that
feature - for such an application. We also plan to migrate to Zebra in the
next months.

Regards,
Alexander Lucke

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Von: Arnold Nipper [mailto:arnold at nipper.de] 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 02:31
An: Matthew Crocker
Cc: Cisco Nsp
Betreff: Re: [nsp] Router for a route server/reflector?



On 15.04.2004 00:40 Matthew Crocker wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>   I'm setting up a local exchange point and I need 2 routers to act as 
> route reflector.  I know I could use Linux/*BSD and Zebra but I wanted 
> to stick to a commercial vendor and keep things simple.  The exchange 
> point will be small with a dozen or so peers.  Each peer would have 10 
> or 20 announcements.  I'll be using a 10/100/1000 switch for traffic.   
> I'm thinking a 2600 would be fine but would like others opinions.
> 

I'm running a 120+ peers exchange point and I'm using zebra/quagga. The
reason is because it's cheaper and more flexible (transparent AS).

Of course a 2600 will do for ~250 pfx and ~15 peers. You could also look
for an old 4500/4700


Arnold

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