[j-nsp] MX80 Questions

[Saku Ytti]

On (2011-08-25 17:11 +0100), Brendan Regan wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone knew how to calculate how many routes can be taken
> in on an MX80 with 2 Full EBGP peers and 1 IBGP peer?

I've not tested more than million routes myself (and 1000 BGP sessions). But it
should scale to 2M routes at least.
Hardwarewise scaling is same as any MPC in larger MX, but control-plane is lot
less beefy than big brothers. Not really sure why, it's not like intel CPU
would be significant BOM addition to MX80 compared to freescale.
<tinfoilhat>downscaling trio would have been expensive, lot cheaper to reduce
the scale of the box is to fit it with poorer RE with less memory</tinfoilhat>

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