[c-nsp] Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 fit on a Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM?

[Darin Herteen]

I've been using the following for v6 traffic generation:

http://www.grid.unina.it/software/ITG/download.php

> From: frnkblk at iname.com
> To: gert at greenie.muc.de; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:52:49 -0600
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 fit on a	Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM?
> 
> Good to know in advance that the 2600 doesn't have a lot of horsepower for
> this kind of work.  
> 
> What's a good IPv6-based speed test site I can to test against?  Maybe I'll
> have to resort to iperf, if it's IPv6 ready.
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de] 
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:30 PM
> To: Frank Bulk - iName.com
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 fit on a
> Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:57:42PM -0600, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> > Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 (almost 2500 entries) fit on a
> > Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM running 12.3(26)?  
> 
> This is a bit tight.  On my good old 4700M, the "BGP router" process,
> which is carrying all of IPv6, needs 6.5 Mbyte of RAM.  64 Mb total, 17 Mb
> free.
> 
> *But*: "12.3 IP Plus" IOS for 2600 will likely eat much more RAM to start
> with, so it might already be tight.
> 
> > I am planning to use this
> > box for an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling appliance, but not sure if it can hold
> the
> > whole table.
> 
> ... and that will be a bigger problem.  The 2600 is *slow*, so chances
> are you won't be able to tunnel enough IPv6 through it to even satisfy 
> a single 16M ADSL link...  and you won't be happy with "proof-of-existance-
> but quite slow" IPv6.
> 
> gert
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