[c-nsp] Appropriate NPE for two full tables and about 40 megabits per second

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:22:53AM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jeff Chan wrote:
> 
> > What would be an appropriate NPE for use in a 7200 to hold two
> > full BGP tables (plus a few other sundry routes) and doing about
> > 40 megabits per second of typical ISP type traffic?
> 
> NPE-300 will do it, but it'll be unhappy, and might not work depending on 
> the IOS. NPE-400 should handle that OK, short of a DDOS. Load them up on 
> RAM either way, 256 or 512. 256 will be tight.

As far as I could find out yet, NPE-300 will only go to 256 Mb.

NPE-400 does 512 Mb, NPE-G1 1Gb

I'd go for the NPE-400 - or start filtering inbound garbage announcements.

gert
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