[c-nsp] edge router BGP

[Alasdair McWilliam]

We've recently deployed ASR 1002 boxes with ESP5 cards and I'm very
happy with them. We only run 3 full BGP feeds on each ASR, with other
EIGRP peers, and while the CPU of our other boxes (7200vxr's) is
linear with load, the ASR seems to twiddle its thumbs somewhat even
under load.

It seems the 6500/7600's debate has come up on this list a few times
so I won't mention that ;-) I just know that specifically with the
6500s, even with an XL sup, I wouldn't be comfortable loading full BGP
feeds into it, given it's limitation will always be hardware (amount
of registers available to store routes in hardware).  I've no
experience with 7600s so can't say if it's the same limitation here.






On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Elmar K. Bins<elmi at 4ever.de> wrote:
> rens at autempspourmoi.be (Rens) wrote:
>
>> I'm looking into replacing a 7206VXR NPE-G1 as edge router.
>>
>> Will be used for our own IP transit but also to serve full BGP tables
>> towards our customers, directly or multihop
>>
>> Should be able to do 1Gbps speeds.
>>
>> Any propositions?
>
> If it needs to be Cisco
>
>  - normal to big packet sizes: 72xx with NPE-G2  (e.g., 7201)
>  - any packet size: ASR1K (e.g., ASR-1002)
>
> Elmar.
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