On Mon, 15 May 2000, Jeff Mcadams wrote:
Also sprach Jeff Binkley
Thanks. I was really looking for the amount of network bandwidth, not how much memory it takes. I've already started the upgrade from 64-128 megs.
Once a BGP session is stabilized, it really uses *very* little network bandwidth. As a data point, it takes about a minute to a minute and a half to sync up a full BGP view over a T1 (someone that's checked this more recently than I might want to correct me if necessary), obviously,
Longer than that if your CPU is slow (i.e. 3620 or 3640) -- it spends more time processing the routes than it does actually transferring them. :) Our poor 3620 takes up to 3 minutes to bring a session up. Another good reason to go 366x or 71xx or 720x... Mike Andrews (MA12) * mandrews@dcr.net * http://www.bit0.com/ VP, sysadmin, & network guy, Digital Crescent Inc, Frankfort KY Internet services for Frankfort, Lawrenceburg, Owenton, Shelbyville www.fark.com: If it's not news, it's Fark. (Or something like that.) - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.