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<p>Hello Isaac,</p>
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<p>The network I'm maintaining has the following amounts of BGP sessions:</p>
<p><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"># birdc show status | head -n 1</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">BIRD 1.6.4 ready.</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"># birdc show protocols | wc -l</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">216</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"># birdc6 show protocols | wc -l</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">211</span></p>
<p>The specifications of this router:<br />Dell R610<br />2x Intel Xeon E5520<br />24 GB RAM</p>
<p>The current load on it:<br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"># free -m</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"> total used free shared buff/cache available</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Mem: 24102 2602 18968 266 2531 20822</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;">Swap: 2447 0 2447</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"># uptime</span><br /><span style="font-family: courier new, courier, monospace;"> 06:26:57 up 13 days, 13:02, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.10</span></p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">So, basically it is old crap hardware (this server is easily 10 years old) and it takes the load with ease. So if you double the amount of BGP sessions, I wouldn't worry if you buy new hardware.</span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"> Cybertinus</span></div>
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<p>On 2019-05-28 04:57, Isaac HO wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear All,
<div>Would you mind suggesting the hardware configuration to us?</div>
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<div>Please find our BGP sessions status for your reference:</div>
<div>IPv4 Session 600 (around)</div>
<div>IPv6 Session 400 (around)</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Isaac </div>
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