Question about Router Capacity and BGP

[spearehad]

Hi,

First, I am a novie, I know very little about networks and switches (programmer at heart). I do own a webhosting company that is expanding and my network engineer takes forever and a day to tell me a damn thing about what I need to do. And when he does speaks , he sounds chinese to me. Can't answer a simple question to save his life.

I just have a few questions.. nothing very technical just need to get a grip on what steps are neede to accomplish my goals.

Can someone tell me how mnay set of IPs I can bind to a Ciscos 2611 and 2610. I currently have two Class C's bound to the 2610 and and 7 to the 2611. I am going to to add about 50 between the two of them. Non-contiguous sets at various times.
Can these two routers handle this?

Second question:
The 2610 has a 10 meg line coming and the 2611 has a 6 meg line coming into it.

I want to combine these lines into one switch so all servers can share the bandwith from both providers and use all the ips. Also, for failover and traffic will take the path of least resistance. (BGP?)

What type of hardware would be needed to accomplish and the least expensive?

Thanks in advance for your help,

Spearhead

 

[KiscoKid]

I would be interested in a bit of freelancing however
the stumbling block is I live in the UK.

 

[spearehad]

You telnet to my routers and switches. that switch above got away. someone sniped it out from under me. Ill have to try again.

 

[spearehad]

well the only other cisco 3500 i see out ther eis for $8K, I wont be doing that.

what about this little heap, will it do the job for now?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Compaq-5422-Lay...ryZ71523QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks,
Todd

 

[robbieguy2003]

If im right your trying to do BGP/Want to do BGP on a Cisco3500.

Before you get two providers in and want to make a failover network you'll need PI/PA space from your local LIR. You'll then need to ask your chosen providers to 'announce' your IP Addresses/ASN and take a BGP Feed from each provider.

Also, on your 2600's how much memory do they have (do a sh hard)? The table at the moment is around 170,000 routes which i think even taking one table in a 2600 would struggle with.

I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.

Rob

 

[spearehad]

What does this part mean?

You'll need PI/PA space from your local LIR.

Thanks,
Todd

 

[robbieguy2003]

PI/PA space is your own IP Addresses space given out by your LIR (Local Internet Registry - Ripe in Europe, ARIN in America).

At the moment you have seperate IP Addresses, one from your first ISP and one from your second ISP.

With BGP you should have your own set from your LIR and then setup a BGP feed to both your chosen ISP's. They will then announce your IP Addresses (effectively telling the world where they are). This then means that all your servers (using 1 IP Address all on the same range) can both use multiple upstreams giving you the failover you want.

I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.

Rob

 

[spearehad]

OK fellas here is the situation now. I hope someone can direct me a bit here.

I have acquired a cisco 3550 w/ EMI.

I have two cisco routers one 2610 and one 2611. They are both hot with mulitple class c's.

The goal is to input both routers to this switch and plug all servers into this switch and all servers be able to use both sets of ips and reach the network out of its repective router. Are any ports specifc to router vs. servers?

I am unclear as to where to begin or how I login into this switch or add the routing to it. I am hoping some simple commands can do the job to set it up.

Once this procedure is up and running. I would then like to proceed to get this in BGP mode. For that case, ill hire a good network negineer to do that. But for now i just need it like described above.

Should I write in my networks gateway and IP's here?

I am not understanding most of the acronyms you fellas use so please elaborate as much if possible? I am unix savvy though.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks again,

Texas Todd