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

Aaron dudepron at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 15:33:34 EDT 2007


That must have been a long time ago. We were upgrading 2 years ago to
VIP4-80s to support the growth of the table. We run 12.0S(32).

On 10/31/07, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>
> 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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