How many BGP peers does the 3548 switch support?

[James Matthews]

Is it possible to run more than 40 peers on a single switch? What is the limitation if not?

[SANTHOSHKUMAR SARAVANAN]

Hi ,

 You can have 40 BGP peers , IPV4 unicast routes handled by hardware is only 24000 .Enusre all your BGP peering routing updates is within this limits . 

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-3548-switch/data_sheet_c78-707001.html

Table 7. Hardware Specifications Common to Both Switches

	Mode	Normal Mode	Warp Mode
Hardware tables and scalability	Number of MAC addresses	64,000	8000
	Number of IPv4 unicast routes	24,000	4000
	Number of IPv4 hosts	64,000	8000
	Number of IPv4 multicast routes	8000	8000
	Number of VLANS	4096
	Number of ACL entries	4096
	Number of spanning-tree instances	Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP): 512 Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol: 64
	Number of EtherChannels	24
	Number of ports per EtherChannel	24
	Buffer size	6 MB shared among 16 ports; 18 MB total
	Boot flash memory	2 GB

HTH

Sandy