[c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?

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We're running BGP on our 6400 ( 4 NRPs currently) without any issues.
We aren't feeding them full tables however since that would likely make
them fall over pretty quickly.  Our main reason for running BGP on them
is to support MPLS VPNs for a bunch of DSL, T1, Ethernet, DS3, etc.
service interworking in support of an MPLS VPN solution set.

If we had a request to do full routes to a customer we'd first try to
talk them out of it and then fall back to a BGP multi-hop setup so they
could peer with a far more capable router.

Good luck,
Chad


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Chad E Skidmore
One Eighty Networks, Inc. - AS12111
http://www.go180.net
509-688-8180    

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Feeny [mailto:signal at shreve.net] 
Posted At: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:06 AM
Posted To: Cisco List
Conversation: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?
Subject: [c-nsp] BGP on 6400 NRP, anyone doing it?



I posted a message last night, and accidently typed "6500" when what I
meant was 6400's (NRP's), so I am re-asking a question here and hoping
some of you can give me some feedback.

Is anyone doing BGP on 6400 NRP's?  If so, is it working ok?

Specifically I have a set of NRP's that need to take 1 iBGP feed and 1
eBGP feed,  and I have been told that these do not play well with BGP,
the sessions drop for unknown reasons, etc and are just unreliable when
it comes to thinking about running BGP on them.

I have BGP working on RSM's/NPE's/RSP's, etc with only 128MB in similar
situations and although they aren't speedy gonzales, it does work.  So I
am skeptical about NRP's not being able to do this, and if anyone has
anything to say about it please let me know.

Brian

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Brian Feeny, CCIE #8036, CISSP
Network Engineer
ShreveNet Inc.