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

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Tue Apr 26 09:59:56 EDT 2011


On 26/04/2011 14:53, Jose Madrid wrote:
> I currently use two MLXe-16 and can attest to the fact that you are
> not going to get anywhere near 1m routes.  More like 500K max.  FYI.

the line card FIBs support 1m ipv4-sized slots.  If you use ipv6 / mpls / 
l3vpn / IGPs / L2 / etc, all entries in these will take up one or more 
slots.  So yes, 1m ipv4 prefixes will generally not be enough to run a DFZ 
of 1m prefixes.

This is the usual disclaimer for statements of the form: "my FIB supports X 
prefixes".

Nick




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