[c-nsp] 2821 as a BGP Route Reflector

Joshua Coombs network-lists at gwi.net
Mon Nov 1 15:38:07 EST 2004


Looking to break away from iBGP meshing as our router count climbs,
I've been searching for a low cost Cisco box that supports a large
chunk of ram, and found the 2821.  Considering this unit(s) will
just be doing BGP, protected from the world by routers on our
network's edge, never actually routing packets, do they have enough
CPU to keep up with 3 uplinks providing full views (on other
routers) and 10 routers peering with it?

Or would I be better served looking at a 7200 and stuffing an NPE-G1
in it?

Joshua Coombs



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