[c-nsp] RE: Cisco 2611XM as cheap border router

[Jim McBurnett]

MOVED to CISCO-NSP from NANOG...
For the Cisco side, I would look at the new 28xx and 38xx.
These can do it easily.....

I think Cisco has addressed this quite nicely with those boxes..
All these base models are dual fast ether and starting with 2821 dual
GigE
With the exception of the 2801, 
	all base models have 256MB RAM and from the 2821 and up expand
to 1GB.


Model		list price
2801		$1995 only 128MB RAM
2811		$2495
2821		$3895
2851		$6495
3825		$9500
3845		$13000

As far as the router documents, Cisco has some at-a-glance docs that are
mighty close.
Rodney may have some links to share there, I just have some PDFs.
I think I would feel rather comortable with a 2851 as a "cheap" border
router unless you need OC 3 interfaces..
They will do T3 and E3 on a NM-T3.....
And they will do a HSSI... 

Just my 2cents worth....
J

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Daniel Golding
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:52 PM
To: Rodney Dunn; Mark Bojara
Cc: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Cisco 2611XM as cheap border router



It would be fairly useful if Cisco had a published document that
detailed the minimum configuration for each major router line to support
BGP with
1
to 4 full views. Of course, this would have to be periodically updated.
By
this, I mean a separate overlay document for their entire router product
line. This would be very helpful to operators and integrators who get
asked about minimum configurations fairly frequently...

(I'm only picking on Cisco because they are 1) big and 2) have routers
that support BGP but don't have enough memory for full tables)

- Dan

On 1/11/05 12:21 PM, "Rodney Dunn" <rodunn at cisco.com> wrote:

> 
> This will not work for full routes.
> The memory upgrade is utilized for larger IOS images with new 
> features.
> 
> An update to the product bulletin is
> in the works to clarify it.
> 
> Further specific questions in regards to the memory can be moved over 
> to the cisco-nsp alias.
> 
> Rodney
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:39:49AM +0200, Mark Bojara wrote:
>> Hello people of nanog :)
>> 
>> Ive been doing some reading up and I see that that 2600 series is now

>> supporting 256MB of memory. Do you guys think this router could
handle
>> 3/4 peers a QoS setup (RSVP or something)?
>> 
>>
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps259/products_qanda_item
0900a
>> ecd800f71dd.shtml
>> 
>> Regards
>> Mark
>>