Have you tried 3Com's 6040 / MSR-50 routers? Regards
Ubaidali Abdul Razack +65.65436404 (Office) +65.65436278 (Fax) Michael J McCafferty <m...@m5computersecurity.com> 12/13/2008 06:37 AM To nanog <nanog@nanog.org> cc Subject Re: e300 vs mx240 for border router ? 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 ************************************************************ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is being sent by 3Com for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential, proprietary and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure and/or distribution by any recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete and/or destroy all copies of this message regardless of form and any included attachments and notify 3Com immediately by contacting the sender via reply e-mail or forwarding to 3Com at postmas...@3com.com.
