[f-nsp] BZGMR3 BGP?

[Nicolaj Kamensek]

Dave Bradshaw schrieb:

Hi Dave,

> Hi, I have just purchased a BigIron 4000 chasis and it was missing a
> management card.
> 
> I would like to do BGP with this BigIron 4000, and want to make sure that
> the management card =BZGMR3 is capable of doing BGP.

yes, this very, very(, very) old card can do BGP. Actually, it's even 
possible with Management II cards(and currently being used by some ISPs 
I happen to know).
Since that old foundry gear is really cheap, you might consider buying 
at least a Jetcore management module. J-BxGMR4 will do the job pretty 
good for small money. This module supports 512MB Dram, has a larger 
CAM(4 times iirc) and supports input ACL(or output?) in hardware. It is 
a much better module and will also work in your chassis.
(Mixing ironcore/jetcore modules is not supported)

> Can anybody verify that this card would allow us to do BGP?  When I search
> google I see the word "Load Balancer" in the title and am worried that this
> only does load balancing.

It does with a Full-Layer3 image < IronWare 8 since the flash memory is 
too small for IronWare 8+. Also, neither the M3 nor the M4 Jetcore 
module support IPv6 in hardware. With an Ironware 8 image you can do 
IPv6 but only in software.

HTH,
Nico

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