[c-nsp] Which Router to replace a 7206 VXR400?

[Vincent De Keyzer]

Garry,

what about just upgrading to NPE-G1 (with 512 MB RAM)? 

Gives you 3 GE ports plus 600 *true* bandwidth points on each pair of slots
(with FE-I/O controller slot zero already eats up some points). NPE-G1 costs
around 8k EUR in Europe these days, memory around 400 EUR.

Vincent


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Garry
> Sent: mercredi 21 décembre 2005 16:21
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Which Router to replace a 7206 VXR400?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm kind of running into some problems with one of our border routers
> ... 7206 VXR NPE400 w/ 256M memory ... I'm looking into selecting a
> replacement for it ...
> 
> At the moment, it's running a GE for the LAN connection, 100M uplink w/
> full BGP4, second uplink to DECIX (currently 100M, potentially to be
> update to GE some time Q1-Q2 06). It's getting another iBGP full link
> from our second border router (12410), plus lots of OSPF routes (many
> /28-/32 routes) from several gateway routers. Throughput/processor load
> isn't much of an issue (at least according to our cricket overview -
> usually ~20% CPU load). Free memory has dropped drastically after
> installing the new IOS (12.2(25)T) in September, from 25M free to 3-5M
> (yuck!). Having the ability to add an OC3 module or two, maybe even STM4
> would be nice but not a show-stopper.
> 
> So, what's the options? The NPE takes up to 512M (which will most likely
> be the short term solution), but what other small-footprint (read: not a
> half rack monster as our 12k ;) ) router would you suggest? 3800 is nice
> but seems a bit of a dead-end (especially with it using the NM's) ...
> 
> Tnx, Garry
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