[f-nsp] BigIron 4000 and Full Internet Table

[Per Marker Mortensen]

Hi

> I have 2 Bigiron 4ks with Management 4(IronCore) acting as my distribution
> layer switches. I have 2 Juniper M10s as my border routers. I have 1 transit
> ISP on each border router. I want to run IBGP between all 4. Has anyone had
> any bad experiences with putting the full table on the bigiron 4ks? They
> both have 512 meg ram.

Until resently I had two complete ebgp connections and about 15 IBGP
connections to router reflector clients. This was on a HP9304 which
should just be a BigIron 4k OEM model. There was no problem with this.

We are using 

S1: J4885A EP 8 port mini-GBIC Management  M4, ACTIV   8   000c.db2f.4100

which should be JetCore module. So I dont know about IronCore.

On a HP9315 we currently run

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SSH at comx>sh ip bgp sum
  BGP4 Summary 
  Router ID: x.y.z.32   Local AS Number : 31661
  Confederation Identifier : not configured
  Confederation Peers: 
  Maximum Number of Paths Supported for Load Sharing : 1
  Number of Neighbors Configured : 13, UP: 13
  Number of Routes Installed : 336055
  Number of Routes Advertising to All Neighbors : 2223776
  Number of Attribute Entries Installed : 60644
  Neighbor Address  AS#   State   Time     Rt:Accepted Filtered Sent   ToSend
  x.y.z.33     31661 ESTAB  31d14h38m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.34     31661 ESTAB  49d18h15m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.35     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.37     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    140211   0        149293 13    
  x.y.z.38     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.39     31661 ESTAB  14d 3h35m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.40     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.41     31661 ESTAB   3d11h12m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.42     31661 ESTAB  51d23h31m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.43     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    0        0        197301 16    
  x.y.z.61     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    0        0        149293 13    
  x.y.z.62     31661 ESTAB  57d10h46m    7        0        149293 13    
  213.y.x.149   3356  ESTAB   1d17h27m    195833   0        5      0     

which is one EBGP feed, one IBGP and about 10 IBGP route reflector
clients. This also worksfine.

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Yours

Per Marker Mortensen <per at markermortensen.dk>