[c-nsp] ASR9k for large scale NAT?

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday, March 06, 2012 06:19:00 AM Nick Hilliard wrote:

> not surprised it's bombing out on memory.  You could
> separate out the NAT functionality from the transit
> router functionality here - e.g. 1 or more routers
> acting as transit routers and then a NAT layer between
> that and your customers.  That would certainly give you
> lots of breathing room.  You could also put more DRAM
> into the ASR1k - the RP1 will take up to 4G.
> Alternatively, you could upgrade to an RP2 and bump the
> RAM up to 16G.

Agree - I'd go RP2 than looking at anything bigger, 
especially since RAM is your issue, not forwarding capacity.

Mark.
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