On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:54:54PM -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > I'm in the same position as yourself and I've been in testing and > production with a set of old Compaq PII-450 workstations with 192 MB RAM > apiece... they run like a charm with four full tables, with plenty of > RAM left over. One of them actually died on me, and I've been lazy about > pulling out one of the other five identical models I have in storage to > replace it. > > It took 10 minutes each to load OBSD on the two and another 40 minutes > putting the configuration together (that part's dependent on your OBGP, > CARP, and general BGP skills) and voila... nice little routeservers. >
For a BGP testlab almost anything will do as long as it has enough RAM or you limit the number of prefixes to a few 10'000. I runned bgpd on soekris boxes, sparcs and even mack68k without any troubles. There should be even enough RAM to run ospfd as well :) For production systems just use a fast CPU and good network cards (if you are routing) plus add between 512M-1GB of RAM. -- :wq Claudio
