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RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?

  • From: Chris Ranch
  • Date: Mon Apr 26 18:10:47 2004
Title: RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?

Steve Gibbard wrote:
> Being able to take a full BGP table in a Cisco is simply a matter of
> having enough memory. 

I just accidentally ran into an ugly surprise turning up some 4006/SupIV's with full tables.  There's a 128K hardware fib table limit.  Crack it, and CEF shuts down.  There's an unallocated 350M block lying around.  Took the TAC a while to point out the fine print, and now I face the pleasure of a forklift upgrade. 

Chris