[nsp] mls in the core?

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:14:38PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> Hi,
>  recent topics on mls has me wondering.
> 
> Has anyone experience - live or lab - of running multilayer switching in the
> network core?
> 
> What I mean by this is where you may have multiple gig-e links which you would
> usually plug in to a big router- gsr or whatever that is also running a full bgp
> table possibly with many peers.
> 
> What about if you stick a 7xxx on as the router engine and sit a 6xxx underneath
> with the gig links in and configure the pair to run mls?
> 
> The 6xxx has a much higher throughput and I'd assume be able to really take a
> beating, as the packets dont go thro the engine the 7xxx doesnt need a huge cpu
> and expensive gig line cards - a single GE or possible FE should do.
> 
> Any thoughts? The incentive behind this is of course to avoid buying a very
> expensive 12000 router loaded with gig ports. (Btw is anyone using and happy
> with gig line cards on 7xxx?)

	can you just configure your 6000 as a 6500 w/ sup and mfsc2
to make it be a 'router'?

	- jared


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