[c-nsp] Cisco 3550 + BGP

[Peter Rathlev]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:52 +0800, Nimal David Sirimanne wrote:
> Anyone have any experience running BGP on Cisco 3550 platforms? Any idea 
> how many BGP routes it can handle?

As Arie mentions, you are severely limited regarding routes. Running VRF
Lite limits you to 2k routes all in all, so they're primarily useful in
simple MPLS L3VPN setups.

That said, we've used the 3550 with great success as CEs for several
years in an eBGP / VRF Lite configuration, and they work like a charm.
Being in an enterprise network, they only carry a few (<100) routes in
each VRF. The eBGP is purely for when redundancy is needed, otherwise we
use static routes from the PE.

The 3550 went EoS in 2006. The 3560 is the natural successor, and has so
far behaved equally well for us in this regard.

Regards,
Peter