Does anyone know of organizations that will allow BGP peering sessions (using private AS numbers) to be established for such test systems described on this thread? The application here is for use in teaching an advance routing class @ a community college here in Ohio.
Thanks! Glenn On Thu, January 25, 2007 4:54 pm, Claudio Jeker wrote: > 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
