Hi Mathias
Thank you for you Feedback. It seems to be a good alternative to our currently installed VXR7206 with NPE-400.
Also, if I look on the performance Sheet from Cisco, where the 2921 even outperform the NPE-400 a little bit.
I think, we will take a deeper look in this solutions.
Thanks you again.
Kind Regards
Patrick
PS: Hope your installation work at EBM, which you have done about 2 weeks ago, went well ;-)
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mathias Seiler [mailto:mathias.seiler@mironet.ch] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2011 17:24 An: Patrick Studer Cc: 'swinog@swinog.ch' Betreff: Re: [swinog] Recommanded IOS Package for 7206VXR + NPE400 to do IPv6/BGP + AS Number 4-byte
Hi Patrick
I've seen 2921 doing 150 Mbit/s mixed HTTP traffic (without many services configured and with about 50% CPU load). And yes, with the new IOS version 15 you can run full BGP and IPv6 BGP with the IP Base Feature Set. I can confirm this. Also OSPFv3 is working in IP Base.
Since this is a software router it depends very much what services you configure (rpf checks etc.). Also if you get DoSed the box won't last for long. But they're pretty powerful if you consider the price. You can get it with 1.5 or 1 GBytes factory upgraded memory, 512 MB should work too, but IMHO not for long :)
If you want to go a step higher consider a pair of ASR1001, but the price gap from the 2921 or even 2951 is fairly large.
HTH - Mathias
On 14 Jul 2011, at 16:52, Patrick Studer wrote:
Hi
@Manfredo/Daniele - Hmm..Already thought about perhaps switching to one of this routers. Is a 2921 really taking all (Full IPv4/IPv6 Features incl. all BGP, ASN 4-bytes) just with the regular IP Base = Part-No. CISCO2921/K9? What can we expect as maximum traffic for this configuration?
@Andy/Michael - Would the SP not be sufficient. Or why should we use Advanced IP or Advanced Enterprise service?
@Kurt - What are the hardware specification of your setup for you Quagga? Is Quagga able to do HSRP or something similar? How much bandwidth do you handle with that configuration?
@All, is enabling of IPv6 taking that much memory, so 512 MB with two full feed and some SwissIX peering would be enough?
Thanks already for your pervious answers.
Kind Regards
Patrick
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Manfredo Miserocchi [mailto:mis@wari.net] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011 07:34 An: Patrick Studer Cc: 'swinog@swinog.ch' Betreff: Re: [swinog] Recommanded IOS Package for 7206VXR + NPE400 to do IPv6/BGP + AS Number 4-byte
Patrick,
only one issue on RAM needed. NPE400 supports 512Mb, that's not enough for a full-view BGP. We better use 7301 or 2921 with 1Gb and 15.0 software.
Cheers Manfredo
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Davidson andy@nosignal.org To: Patrick Studer p.studer@x-netconsulting.ch Cc: "'swinog@swinog.ch'" swinog@swinog.ch Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:40:30 +0100 Subject: Re: [swinog] Recommanded IOS Package for 7206VXR + NPE400 to do IPv6/BGP + AS Number 4-byte
On 11 Jul 2011, at 17:23, Patrick Studer wrote:
We want to go a step further with our infrastructure and start testing/implementing IPv6.
Has anybody here a 7206VXR + NPE400 running and doing IPv6 / Full BGP / 4-byte ASN? If yes, which IOS Version and Package do you have installed. How much memory / flash do you have installed?
We currently have "only" two upstreams and some SwissIX peering.
Hey Patrick. :-)
I was running some 7206 in my past job, although these had an NPE-G1 or NPE-G2, with 1GB of RAM.
You need Advanced IP Services or Advanced Enterprise services for v6 routing, and Multiprotocol (i.e. v4 and v6) BGP. You need 12.4(24)T, or 12.2(33)SRE1 (or later, including all 15.0) for 4 byte ASNs.
So you should get away with, assuming your NPE has the storage and RAM : c7200-advipservicesk9-mz.12.2-33.SRE1 to SRE4, or c7200-advipservicesk9-mz.124-24.T5.bin.
And of course, we at as6939/he.net would like to help with your v6. :-)
Andy
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