Leslie, Can you summarize any other info you may have learned in the private responses for the benefit of those that are interested ?
I am not at all familiar with the Force10s, am buying new border routers now. Thanks, Mike On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:27 -0800, Leslie wrote: > Thanks to everyone who wrote back privately -- > > I also didn't know that force10 now has dual-cam linecards which raises > the amount of routes it can handle > > Leslie wrote: > > Hey nanog-izens > > > > So for routers that are touching our transit and (hopefully soon) future > > peering, we're looking at both the force10 e300's and juniper mx240's. > > The e300's are cheap but I have heard some rumors/talk of falling over > > when it has to deal with large numbers of prefixes and routes? The > > mx240's are nice but the cost difference is enormous. Does anyone have > > experience with e300's running into issues with large routing tables? > > Are there any tricks/tips that work around any issues (if they exist?) > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Leslie > -- ************************************************************ Michael J. McCafferty Principal, Security Engineer M5 Hosting http://www.m5hosting.com You can have your own custom Dedicated Server up and running today ! RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and more ************************************************************
