[c-nsp] 7505, OC3s and BGP

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:45:28PM -0400, Bill Wichers wrote:
> I've been able to get two full views on a 75xx w/ RSP4, but we have two
> routers, one for each peer, so we have "distributed filtering" in a sense
> and neither router sees every route. I would think 2 views would still fit
> on the VIP2-50's with 128MB RAM though since we show a lot free. I doubt
> you could fit more than 2 full views though.

The number of BGP views doesn't affect memory consumption in the VIPs
(only the total number of routes, but that should not change very much
with the number of BGP views, if every one of them is truly "full").

The VIP needs to hold the CEF table and its IOS, and 128 Mb are still
plenty for that.

gert
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