[c-nsp] ASA and BGP

Nick Cutting ncutting at edgetg.co.uk
Fri Jul 31 04:23:42 EDT 2015


Just got confirmation that it is ~22,000 routes. 4 gig of ram on a 5515x. should be fine.  
However, I'm worried that no one is doing this, anywhere.

-----Original Message-----
From: Łukasz Bromirski [mailto:lukasz at bromirski.net] 
Sent: 30 July 2015 20:28
To: Nick Cutting
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASA and BGP


> On 30 Jul 2015, at 15:20, Nick Cutting <ncutting at edgetg.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I've tried running BGP on the ASA, just few routes, seems to work fine.
> 
> But now I may need to take in a whole lot more, in a location that only has a pair of ASAs in Asia. 
> 
> I cannot find any documentation about routing limits on the ASA, except for IGP, which states as many as the config(flash) and memory supports.
> 
> Now that BGP is supported on the ASA, has anyone been crazy enough to take in a full table, or a few thousand routes?

Sure, 580k+. Shouldn’t be a problem, RAM is plentiful if you’re not doing thousands of translations/etc.

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