[c-nsp] c3560 L3 throughput with BGP

[Adrian Minta]

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Adrian Minta wrote:
>
>>> 1. Handling approximately 500Mbps each way (about 1Gbp total 
>>> throughput)
>>> 2. Handling BGP peerings with up to 20 peers with total of 200-300 
>>> prefixes
>>> 3. Complete BGP support (communities, filtering etc.)
>>> 4. Of course boxes are basically acting as router, so both ports are
>>> separate L3 ports.
>>>
>> C3560 and c3750 are both switches witch means line rate speeds as long
>> as your number of routes is smaller than TCAM size. One prefix more and
>> everything goes kaboom.
>> I suggest to take a look at Cisco 7201 router.
>
> Why?  300 routes on a 3560 is nothing.  I've done around 1300 routes 
> and 2-3 BGP peers on a 3550.  20 peers seems like maybe a lot, but as 
> long as they're all reasonably stable, I suspect it'd work and be much 
> cheaper than a 7201.
Are you sure that nobody is accidentally injecting more routes ?
You will always be on the edge. C3550 was a better switch than C3560 IMHO.

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Best regards,
Adrian Minta