Yes, and No. I went through the same questions when I was considering using the PAN device instead of a dedicated edge router. The following table shows the limits (sent to me by a Palo Alto SA about 6-8 months ago when I was planning for implementation, and still current according to the current spec sheet for the 5000 series platform) PA-5060 PA-5050 PA-5020 PA-4060 PA-4050 PA-4020 PA-2050 PA-2020 PA-500 PA-200 Static routing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Forwarding table size (entries per device) 64,000 64,000 64,000 20,000 20,000 10,000 5,000 2,500 1,250 1,000 Forwarding table size (entries per VR) 64,000 64,000 64,000 20,000 20,000 10,000 5,000 2,500 1,250 1,000 Max route maps per VR 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 Routing Peers (regardless of protocol) 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 1,024 Since the current entire BGP table is somewhere around 440000 routes, the entire table is not going to fit into a PAN device - even a 5000 series - without some serious filtering. Cheers.
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