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

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> Saku Ytti
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 3:38 PM
> 
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 16:55, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> In MX for example this is multidimensional answer. Same memory is used for
> many things and having less A means you can have more B.
> 
I agree,
All these scaling and performance numbers you'll get from a vendor are
unidirectional, unless stated otherwise  -meaning in pursuit of looking the
best possible in comparison to the competition these numbers were achieved
with the box running nothing else but the feature under test, so depending
on your setup you might get close or nowhere near to the published numbers.
So at the end of the day you still have to test yourself or pay vendor to
test your specific setup for you. 
But that said smaller shops may need to rely on the vendor published numbers
and just take them with a grain of salt.
(and yes cisco is much better in publishing these, one can get juniper
numbers only under NDA -go figure).

To the OP's question,
Since you don't need throughput maybe vMX/cRDP or vXR 9000 with just couple
of gig of licenses would be an option? 
That way you'll get all the internet proven BGP stack offered by the big
boxes for fraction of the price tailored to your BW needs.
But yes there's the who manages the server part unfortunately...

adam