[f-nsp] "affordable" BGP router from foundry?

[Jeroen Oldenhof]

david raistrick schreef:
> folks,
>
> I've recently taken over a reasonably complex network that's 99% foundry.
>
> I'm also looking to add some eBGP speaking support at the edge of one of 
> our networks that doesn't have it now.
>
> Initially looking at 2 to 3 transit links with full routes, plus the 
> possibility of adding peering to the mix.
>
> Does Foundry have anything smaller than the RX4 that's applicable for 
> this?   Everything else that's L3 seems to max out at or below 100k 
> routes....
>
> I'd expect something in the 100 to 400Mb range to pass through a pair of 
> these.
>   

Hi David,

We run two Bigiron 4000's with an Ironcore management 4 blade. We do 
about 100mbps through 2 transits, partial transit and a couple of peers 
on our local IX.
It does the job, but when facing a DoS (from the inside) the cpu goes up 
to 100% which makes our network nearly unreachable. Also acl's don't do 
well..
We consider upgrading to a JetCore based Bigiron 4000, which has more 
cpu power and supports stuff like sFlow.
a complete Ironcore mgmt4 system goes for about $3000,- on Ebay these 
days, Jetcore based equivalent for about $7000,-

Best,
  - Jeroen