Hi,

I have been reading this forum as preparation for the purchase of a rb1000.

Currently we have a simple setup. Two BGP upstreams with full view (295k+ routes both), some ACL's for limiting inbound prefixes and blocking some ports, and internally just switching to a core switch, on which we route vlans. Traffic is low (max 200-300mbits, possibly increasing to 500-600 mbits).

It seems to me that rb1000 can take the traffic. The ACL's are done in the firewall I think, at least for the port filtering? Would the two full tables cause any problems? Would it be possible to expand that to four full views? Does anyone see any bottlenecks based on these specs?

Thanks for your time!

I have a dual-core x86 router that has 2GB of ram and handles two full tables. Make sure you have at least 1GB of RAM in that RB1000. I don't think you'll have any issues at all with your proposed setup. The RB1000 has a network-centric cpu that puts it on par with my x86 solution. I say give it a shot.

Thanks for your reply. We would load the rb1000 with the max RAM to start with, since we can use 'simple' Kingston RAM or similar.

With the rb1000 we can finally start to prepare ipv6, so would be another step forward.