Alex,
Comments in line...
Thanks,
Nash
At 01:37 PM 2/5/2002 +0100, KF wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Since I'm confused what can I combine together (hardware/features) with
>Cat 6500 and what is hardware/features difference between
>SUP 2/SUP 1A; PFC/PFC2 ; MSFC/MSFC2 with chassis 6506/9/13, I decide to
>share mine questionaries with you..
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/supcc_ov.htm
would be a good starting point.
>Cat 6500 is VERY interesting MARKETING box.. since it can do almost
>everything.. "-)
True. Cat6500 is a very feature rich box.
>What is the difference (features) and future support (is cisco goin' to
>migrate at the future to the native IOS at 6500?) between
>Hybrid and Native IOS support? Where can I obtain whole research,
>features/support/hardware in one place?
Distributed forwarding card (DFC) is a daughter card can be installed on
line cards which are Fabric enabled to perform local switching. This
distributed switching architecture is only supported in Native IOS.
For more details on DFC and local switching, please refer to this document:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/65dfc_ds.htm
This document provides comparison between CatOS and Supervisor or Native IOS
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/tech/cat65_wp.htm
>I want to combine this features together if possible on WIRE SPEED...
>
>Firewalling (ACL/antispoofing/DoS preventing/statefull checking..)
>
>Content switching (not Accelerated SLB... using CSM, what is switched in
>ASICs? , scripted health checking, bandwidth management,
>further SSL offload ..)
There are blades available which can be installed in cat6500 to achieve max
performance. Here are some documents on CSM and IDS blades
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/ccsm_ds.htm
------ Content switching module
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/1584_pp.htm
------- New features
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/1584_pp.htm
------- Intrusion detection system module
>MLS
Depending on the hardware, i.e. MSFC/PFC combination, the forwarding
mechanism is either "MultiLayer Switching" or "CEF"
MSFC/PFC does MLS
MSFC2/PFC2 uses CEF
MSFC2 can be installed on Sup1A but MSFC cannot be installed on Sup2
>HSRP..
>NETFLOW Export
Even though CEF is the forwarding mechanism when using Sup2/MSFC2, netflow
tables are maintained in the hardware for stats.
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_6_3/confg_gd/nde.htm
provides details on configuring NDE.
>QoS (CAR, allocate and prioritize traffic..NBAR/DSCP)
QoS is also done in the hardware for wire rate performance.
Configuring QoS:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/sw_6_3/confg_gd/qos.htm
>An idea behind is to build up an server farm, where each server (group of)
>should have it's own security policy and reside at self
>VLAN and traffic will be content switched..is necessary to have some
>BANDWIDTH management of L7 traffic or CAR physicaly per L2
>port or defined by QoS. need of maximalized redundancy (not the marketing
>one ;-)
>
>Many Thanks for any imput..
>
>alex
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