[c-nsp] Small network Route Reflectors?

[Jon Harald Bøvre]

IS-IS:

Anytime you might want to consider IPv6, and IS-IS dual-stack might be a 
challenge
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Jon H Bøvre

On 15.03.2011 16:07, Peter Rathlev wrote:
> We're thinking about introducing dedicated Route Reflectors in our
> small-ish MPLS VPN network. We currently have ~35 PE devices, all
> 6500/Sup720. There are no dedicated P devices.
>
> A couple of the PEs are RRs currently, but given the slow RP on a Sup720
> we'd like dedicated RRs instead; and there are many other good reasons
> for that of course.
>
> We're talking ~10k MP-BGP routes now (plus about ~100 IGP routes
> (IS-IS)) with per-PE RDs.
>
> The ISR 2901 seems fit for the job. Any comments on that? Are there
> other devices better suited, assuming we intend to buy something brand
> new?
>
> According to FN the ISR 2901 IP Base image doesn't support MPLS, but
> otherwise supports all we need, i.e. IS-IS and MP-BGP. MPLS forwarding
> isn't a problem since the RR isn't supposed to forward traffic. Any good
> reasons to choose something other than IP Base?
>
> Thanks.
>