Re: Using old thin clients as a BGP testbed

2007-01-25 Thread unixgeek
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,

Re: Using old thin clients as a BGP testbed

2007-01-25 Thread Claudio Jeker
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

Re: Using old thin clients as a BGP testbed

2007-01-25 Thread Dan Farrell
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 o

Re: Using old thin clients as a BGP testbed

2007-01-24 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:47:28PM +, Richard Wilson wrote: > I work for a small hosting company, and the boss says he wants to start > doing BGP for our upstream connection. This means I've got to learn BGP. > At least I've managed to persuade him to buy me an O'Reilly book :-) > However, the