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Re: using gated for multi-home BGP

  • From: Alex P. Rudnev
  • Date: Sat Oct 16 14:39:07 1999 
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Jim Mercer wrote:
> 
>  | also, if using an intel platform, with FreeBSD, what would your recommendations
>  | be for processor/RAM with two full peers?
>  | 
> 
> Any of the high speed Celeron processors (466 is <$100 now) work great, you
> probably want to start at 64MB RAM
Gated use more memory than CISCO IOS, because this case you have the GATED
tables and the kernel tables; menory is cheap today, don't experiment and
install 128 or 256 MB RAM if you want a few core images.

CPU power should not be so important, I guess. And use commercial gated if
you can.


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