[c-nsp] BGP on Catalyst 5505???

[Konstantin Barinov]

Hi,

Here's one 5505 + RSFC (pretty similar to RSM) that now routes ~700M,
CPU load on RSFC is about 20%. There are about 100 vlan interfaces
and only handful of them have access-lists enabled. There's also eigrp
running. Some time ago it did bgp also (of course, not full table). :)

Traffic from/to vlan interface with access-list enabled (and another fancy
features) will be switched by CPU instead of MLS. This degrades performance
very much. I guess 5505 + RSFC without access-lists will be able to route
at "wire speed" of it's limited buses.

In general, 5505 is very old but very stable box. I like it.


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Konstantin Barinov
INFONET AS, Tallinn, Estonia


Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 6:28:10 PM, you wrote:

M> Performance is one of my first concern, which type of performance can i
M> expect from RSM???

M>   Mark

M> On Sep 1, 2004, at 12:56 AM, Spencer Garrett wrote:

>> On conce, 31 Aug 2004, Mark wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning to use an old Catalyst 5505 to run BGP for peeing.
>>> I have SUPII and RSM.  Is it powerful enough or I'm trying something
>>> crazy?
>>>
>>> What do you think about that?
>>
>> The main limitation of the RSM is that it will only hold 128 MB of RAM.
>> That won't be a problem for a peering router, so I think you'll likely
>> be happy if the RSM is fast enough for your traffic levels.
>>
>> Spencer
>>

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