[c-nsp] 100 meg links - VIP2-50 or VIP4-50?

[Jon Lewis]

Back when we shut all our 7500s down, 128mb on VIP2-50s was enough to hold 
a full table with 12.2S software.  I'd be surprised if that wasn't still 
enough...but certainly there will come a day when it's not.

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Aaron wrote:

> You need the memory for the routing table
>
> On 10/30/07, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>>
>> I'll disagree.  While that 7507 ought to be retired :), I've seen
>> vip2-50's pushing single FEs to darn near line-rate...so 2 customers doing
>> 25-50mbit each ought to be doable...especially if they spend most of their
>> time closer to the 25mbit each range.
>>
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Aaron wrote:
>>
>>> I'd go with vip4. Did you mean vip4-80? I the extra memory and cpu will
>> be
>>> needed.
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> On 10/30/07, neal rauhauser <nrauhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   I have a customer who is going to provide peering links from a 7507
>> to
>>>> two
>>>> different customers. They're going to take full routes and we're
>> expecting
>>>> 25 - 50 mbits of traffic from each. Is a VIP2-50 with two PA-FE-TX
>> going
>>>> to
>>>> handle this or will the extra juice of the VIP4-50 be required?
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