[c-nsp] Cat6500 - Support for MPLS and IPv6

[Neils Christoffersen]

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On 3/31/08, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:52:04PM -0400, Juno Guy wrote:
> > It is my understanding that somewhere after the 12.2SX release MPLS and
> IPv6
> > will no longer be supported on the 6500 (but will continue to be supported
> > on the 7600 as I understand).
>
> Well, as far as I understand, this is currently not the case, and I haven't
> seen any announcement to that extent.  (Except as has already been written:
> the *modular* variant of SXF had no support for either, but that was "not
> yet", and not "not any longer").
>
> OTOH, personally, I have great distrust for the 7600/6500 BUs, and it
> wouldn't surprise me to come to a point in the future where I need to
> decide "do I want support for 32 bit AS numbers, or do I want support
> for my existing hardware".  Cisco needs to do a *lot* to get back the
> customer trust that these two BUs have destroyed.
>
> gert
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