[f-nsp] MLXe-4 vs ASR1006 vs MX80

[Nick Hilliard]

On 26/04/2011 16:34, Chris Marlatt wrote:
> IIRC the MLX only does up to ~512k IPv4 routes. The XMR is the chassis
> that'll support higher than this.

sorry, you're correct here - the XMR does 1m prefixes.  More correctly, 
it's the line cards which support this, as this chassis uses distributed 
forwarding.

In their data sheet for the MLX series, Brocade note:

> Industry-leading scalability up to:*
> • 10 million BGP routes
> • 1 million IPv4 routes in hardware (FIB)

the * refers to "Scalability limits depend on configured system parameters, 
NetiIron XMR module types, licenses, system profile selected, and routing 
database complexity."

This is stretching reality a little more than usual, or perhaps the 
documentation writer just got the two mixed up.

Nick