[j-nsp] Need suggestions..

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > FWIW, OP may have meant 4 full tables in RIB+FIB, 4 in
> >  RIB and 1 in FIB, or something else.  I thought the
> >  second.  A more recent RE could do the trick, but it's a
> >  different issue if that's the most sensible approach in
> >  the grand scheme of things..
> 
> Concerns about the RE-850 abound. 
> 
> With the way JUNOS + the Internet routing table are growing, 
> I'm worried.

I can confirm your worry about the RE-850.

We had one box with a full Internet table (~310K prefixes) *and* a
reasonable number of L3VPNs with a total of ~160K prefixes, *and* a
high number of interfaces. This box needed enough RE memory that we
started seeing swap usage. Not good.

Now the box has a reduced Internet table, and is happy.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no