[c-nsp] maximum number of ebgp neighbors?

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Hi Yasser,
> 
>   I heard one day from a colleague that max. number of ebgp neighbors
> is 50. 
> It was his way to justify why confederations to be used where as
> Route Reflector technique is much simpler. 
> I didn't have a chance to verify his words though.
> What do you think ?

Many customers run routers with many more eBGP sessions than 50. So, in
general, this information is incorrect. If the question is "how many
eBGP sessions can I run on router type xy with zzz MB of memory where
each peer is sending me 100k prefixes before I run out of memory/cpu
resources", the answer could be 50, but it could also be 500. it depends
on many factors... 

	oli



> "Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)" <oboehmer at cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	> Is there such a number? if yes, is there a command or some
mibs
> 	that > tell such number?
> 
> 	There is no fixed upper limit. maximum number of peers depends
on
> 	memory/nvram/cpu performance of the box.
> 
> 	oli
> 
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