[c-nsp] ASR1002-X & (2) full BGP feeds

[Lukas Tribus]

Hi Adam,


> We have a customer with an ASR1002-X supporting redundant links to the
> Internet, currently taking only default routes to both in a primary/failover
> scenario. However, they want to have the absolute best path to all
> destinations to the Internet, and so are considering taking full routes from
> both providers.
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> According to their research the ASR1002-X supports up to 1,000,000 routes
> and to support two full BGP feeds, Cisco recommends upgrading from the
> default 1 GB RAM to 16 GB RAM.

In my opinion this box should work fine with 8GB RAM both from a memory
and CPU perspective, even with 2 or more full feeds. I have ASR1004-RP2s with
8GB RAM doing a similar job (in MPLS VPNs), its fine. ASR1002-X is a refreshed RP2
afaik.

RP1 with 4GB RAM, not su much ...


Lukas