Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:47:28 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BGP on a cisco 2500 series Message-ID: <199606191547.LAA05798@etinc.com>
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>On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Chris Watson wrote: > >> I saw this topic discussed briefly on one of the lists. >> I didnt pay much attention till now. My boss wants to go multihomed and >> run BGP. We have a 2501 cisco router, and i'm pretty confident theres no >> way on gods green earth we can do it on a 2501. both serials are used. >> And i dont think it has the ability to hold a full routing table? > >I think that a full routing table takes about 6 MB these days. The >Cisco 2501 comes with 2 MB and you can add 16 MB for something like $300 >if you don't buy the SIMM from Cisco. Use one Cisco to handle one feed >and the other Cisco to handle the other feed. If you get a lot of route >flaps, increase the dampening. > >This approach saves money and gives you real fault-tolerance. Either >provider or either Cisco can fail and you won't go down. I would also >put them on separate UPSs. Anyone out there getting multiple views of the net with a 2501? With filtering and convergence situations the little processor in a 2501 is rather inadaquate. Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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