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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Chuck,</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A full route is about ~ 300k routes. A BigIron 4000 (with JetCore IV management) can handle two full BGP tables and 5 eBGP peers ~ 700k routes with just no problem. There was even some free memory.</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You can make sure you will be able to load them with no issues. The issue that you may run in is more related to CPU and CAM. Under certain situation you might find your router running out of CAM, not honor/respond keep-alive request and see your sessions dropping.</font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I think many people already discussed the BI4 topic on ML around. I even know one medium French ISP that was running till not so long time ago a few BI4 as core with up to 3 full tables.</font></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Just my 0.002$</font></span></p>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: FR-CH" lang="EN-US"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Gregory</font></span><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/4/6 Chuck Ufarley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markentime@gmail.com">markentime@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi all--<br><br>I'm trying to figure out if I can run 500k - 600k routes of a full BGP table on a standard J-BxGMR4 (512MB) with a BigIron 4000 chassis. At this point I'm thinking no, but is anyone running anything like it?<br>
<br>And looking at Foundry/Brocade's site doesn't give me much information, but does anyone have the specs on how much traffic a B4000 can handle at one time?<br><br>Any direction on how to find this info without bothering you again would be great, too. Sorry to be a bother.<br>
<br>And thanks!<br><font color="#888888"><br>--Chuck<br>
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