[j-nsp] Best route reflector platform

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 02:47:58PM +0400, Pavel Lunin wrote:
> 2. Branch SRX do not support more than 2G of RAM. Moreover about 700M+ is
> preallocated for flow session table and it is not released even when you
> switch the box into packed mode (well, at least used to be last time I
> checked a year or so ago). Plus JUNOS itself. In practice you have just
> about ~700M of free control plane memory on SRX650.

A decent amount of memory is required for RR purposes too. We're pretty 
much to the point that if its not running 64-bit JUNOS (which actualley 
only bumps the max rpd memory from 2GB to 3GB, so it's not "that" big an 
improvement :P) it either won't work at all, or won't survive for very 
long. And that's after taking a lot of steps to reduce core IBGP mesh 
route load. I haven't touched any of the "virtual SRX" stuff, does it 
run 64-bit JUNOS?

In fairness I really don't think there is a "big" market for dedicated 
RR's, so I'm sure it isn't on the top of anyone's radar. That said, it 
is an absurdly easy problem to solve, with almost no work required (ship 
JUNOS on 1U PC and call it JCS100). So besides greatly pissing off many 
of its largest customers, they're leaving money on the floor and forcing 
people into other solutions with other vendors. I really can't imagine 
that the benefit of selling an extra MX240 chassis, even if sold at 
regular price, is worth the money being lost from everyone else.

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