Hi,

in my opinion you need 256 MB per BGP Session. In order to handle two of them, you can upgrade the memory in the 7204 (depends on NPE) or use the cat 6500.

Regards, Celio

Similar to Celio's post, I thought the most common limitation for many routers when doing Internet BGP is having sufficient RAM.  You might check whether your existing 7204 supports accepting more RAM and/or whether you can upgrade to a "better" processing engine (especially if it's a VXR).

Although there's nothing wrong with the sup720-3BXL, you often lose some IOS features especially if you don't have WAN cards (which are more limited in the 6500 vs. the 7600).  So, you might consider replacement router such as the 7201 or perhaps a 3800 series ISR, depending on the performance you need  (the 3800 ISR offer similar or better performance compared to the early 7200 NPEs).

Hi

in this forum http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=5481852

they talk about filtering bgp if a default route is received..........How you would have to handle this situation today is to apply an inbound filter on your BGP sessions with your upstream providers that just tosses out some selective routes to get you under the 256k limit. In practice, it generally works best to just chop out the smaller network advertisements (/24 or /25 and longer masks) -- i.e. "permit 0.0.0.0/0 le 23". To do this and not cause an reachability isssue with the networks you've filtered from your table, you MUST also take a default route from at *least* one of your upstream carriers as a catch-all. This will allow you to retain most of the benefits of taking full tables from your upstreams for TE purposes, but keep you from nuking your boxes in the process.....

but how do I know if I receive a default route from my peer?  in any case I added a 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 route pointing to my peer.

your ideas please!!

thanks