A quick comment on the NPE-200. We haven't heard anything
like this on the 7200 team. If you can get your source to
elaborate more fully, we can answer the concern.
Barry Bruins
7200 Engineering Team
>
> He have a 7206 doing EVERYTHING. OSPF, Static, E/iBGP and firewalling.
> I'm kicking my boss to get another router and leave the 7206 as a border
> router and get a 7505 or 7507 as an internal core router. He is concerned
> with physical hops as customers hate to see hops. I heard that their is a
> way to "Tunnel" two routers or two interfaces together to make it seem
> "invisible" to a traceroute. Is this possible?! Is it worth while? I'm
> sketchy about load on the 7206 which is why I want to take action as it is
> constantly rebooting. We have received a NPE-200 which I have yet to
> install to try to remidy our reboot problem, but I have heard that the
> 7206s have a design flaw hindering their performance at high RPM so to
> speak which will leave the NPE-200 as nothing more then a dent in the
> pocket book. Anyone have any info on this?! Anyone know about tunneling?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Jason A. Lixfeld jlixfeld@idirect.ca
> System Administrator [L5] jlixfeld@torontointernetxchange.net
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