[c-nsp] 3550 as a BGP Router

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, neal rauhauser wrote:

>  BGP requires memory to store routes. The 2610 maxes out at 64 meg. The
> 3550 is hardwired with 64 meg. They're equivalent in terms of storage space
> and I think roughly equivalent in processing power. I think a 64 meg box
> starts to have trouble around 50k routes if I'm recall correctly. If all the
> machine is doing is a dozen peers with a few dozen prefixes each it should
> be more than up to the task.

Skeeve said about 100 routes is all he needs.  Also, the 3550 has other 
limitations that will kill the box long before BGP route memory consumes 
available RAM.

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