[c-nsp] Cisco 4000 series (4461) as a BGP router?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 04:42:35PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Many of us here spend countless hours in vendor labs and EBC's when we
> could be out having a nice dinner with our friends and families, so we
> can obtain an unbiased and fair view of the kit we want to buy to build
> and operate our networks. 

But this should not be an excuse for a vendor not publishing basic
things like "the forwarding hardware on <this generation foo> can 
handle 4.13 trillion IPv4 entries, unless you use IPv6, in which case
it goes down to only 22.000".

FIB is fairly easy here.

"How many full table feeds will fit into the RIB" is more complicated
(as it depends on more factors than sheer "number of prefixes" but 
also paths, attributes, churn = CPU usage, etc.) - but even there a 
rough number is easy to publish.


And, of course, "for this platform, we offer the following 3 different
licenses, which do <this>, <that> and <somethingelse>" - this is particularily
annoying for the MX204, where I have yet to find something on Juniper's
page that explains "if you want to use the MX204 for <X>, you need to 
buy <that license>".

gert
-- 
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 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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