[f-nsp] NetIron MLX-4 vs Juniper MX240

[Niels Bakker]

* georgeb at gmail.com (George B.) [Wed 12 May 2010, 01:34 CEST]:
>And basically the reason is ... I currently show about 320,000 routes
>from one upstream for v4.  The MLX can handle 512,000 v4 routes in
>hardware.  That leaves room for about 48,000 ipv6 routes provided the
>v4 routing table stops growing today but exactly the opposite is going
>to happen.  As what remaining v4 addresses are broken into smaller
>pieces, the routing table is going to continue to grow with smaller
>prefixes.

Ample room for growth if you follow the previous poster's advice which 
was to get an XMR if you want to future-proof your routing.


	-- Niels.

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