[e-nsp] Using Extreme for BGP border router?

[Bruno Lebayle]

Swen Wulf wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> we are looking at replacing our current border router and I wonder how 
> good / bad Extreme Networks gear is for doing BGP. I have a hard time 
> finding any good references on the web.
> 
> We are a medium sized ISP with about 2 Gbit/s of Internet traffic. I am 
> getting full routing tables from my two upstream providers and I am also 
> transit and BGP peer for some of my customers (~ 14 BGP peers downstream).
> 
> Current issue we have is that the global routing table > 250K routes and 
> the current gear can't keep all that in hardware, and we would like to 
> use 10G interfaces for future growth.
> 
> I would be interested if anybody out here is using an Extreme Networks 
> box in an ISP environment and is using BGP with multiple peers. I wonder 
> how the argument goes with Cisco customers/peers and any other issues 
> that one might run into it.

Hi Swen,

We are precisely in this case on our MAN giving access to the French 
public Education/Research network. There are more than 15 sites, all of 
them with Cisco routers, but ours where we have a BD10808. The Internet 
access is provided by two Cisco peers, so we have 2 BGP sessions 
established and sometimes swap from the active to the backup without any 
harm. 3.5 years of operation without any trouble on BGP, so 
interoperability cannot be questioned. However, we deal with about 200 
BGP routes only (MAN + default routes to the Internet) ...

Cheers,
Bruno LEBAYLE.
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