bgp, is-is, ...

[Randy Bush]

Brad wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2008 03:43:41 Randy Bush wrote:
>> openbgp is said to be the best bsd implementation of bgp.  but i see
>> that ports/openbgpd has not been updated in a while.  it is at 4.0 while
>> 4.3 is the current public release.
> Actually 4.4 is the latset release, although only available in CVS. I have
> prodded Henning again about updating the website/FTP site.
> The OpenOSPF port could use an update to 4.4.

but no is-is?  not to start an emacs/vi debate, but most of us old
pharts are is-is, as are the big old backbones (and the smarter new ones:-).

>> for two full bgp feeds, is 4g of ram gonna last? or should i get 8g?
> A machine with 512MB of memory should have no problem with 3 maybe 4 feeds 
> depending on BGP implementation and setup. So 2GB should be more than enough

cool.  this will have at least two ibgp peers who have full external
transit feeds, i.e. 200k prefixes each.

randy