[c-nsp] Advise on 7609

[Jasper de Beer]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Saku Ytti wrote:

> Personally I'd shop two 6704-10GE's, if we're talking moving 10G of
> traffic (I assume in and out:) do you really want to loose all that
> if single LC dies. So I'd put 'hands' in different LC's.
>

That's ok, we'll be buying multiple for redundancy and hot spare reasons, 
thanks for the advise though!

> 300 BGP-sessions seems rather much for 600MHz that MSFC3 is. 1GB DRAM
> will do 4 full views though. So if it's single box that should do
> 300 BGP-sessions I'm not sure at all, if they are quite inactive, can
> be done with regular eBGP timers, and not very many prefices, I'd
> guess it'll work. Depending you fast you need this, there might be something
> with bit more software power coming up.

Do you have any idea in how much time that will be?

> Also you speak about firewalling, yet you describe packet filtering,
> there is world of difference. If you can live with packet filtering,
> you don't need FWSM/ACE and can do linerate performance in all situations.
> Adding states in 10G device is risky business, and firewalling is
> always stateful (if it's not stateful, it's packet filtering).
>

Packet filtering then :)

Tia!

Jasper.