[c-nsp] RSP4 as route server? - seeking suggestions and opinions

[Derick Winkworth]

Or Vyatta maybe...

Masood Ahmad Shah wrote:
> You can also use JUNOS olive. 
>
> http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Olive
>
>
> Regards,
> Masood 
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Cory Ayers
> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 1:45 AM
> To: Ang Kah Yik
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] RSP4 as route server? - seeking suggestions and
> opinions
>
>   
>> I've only been recently tasked with looking into possible (re)uses for
>>     
> this
>   
>> box so I'm not sure how it managed to handle 2 sets of full routes
>>     
> either.
>
> 256M RAM will barely handle one BGP feed filtered to /23 (140k routes)
>
>   
>> The first thing that came to mind when tasked with this was actually
>> Quagga/OpenBGPD. There appears to be a discussion on Linux Gigabit
>>     
> routers
>   
>> on the NANOG-ML but the discussion seems skewed towards forwarding
>> performance rather than BGP scalability.
>>     
>
> If you're just looking for data gathering, go with Quagga.  We've got an
> old SOHO box (533Mhz, 512M RAM, 512M Flash drive) running a lean install
> of Fedora with 8 BGP feeds (somewhat filtered) inbound, and another
> session to route-views.  This replaced a 7200 NPE-300 w/256M that
> couldn't keep up a few years back.
>
> Cory
> _______________________________________________
> cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
>
> _______________________________________________
> cisco-nsp mailing list  cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp
> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com 
> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1859 - Release Date: 12/20/2008 2:34 PM
>
>