[nsp] mls in the core?

[Jared Mauch]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 10:23:30PM +0000, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 
> > 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'?
> 
> Possibly.. but the MSFC IOS tends to be quite limited and I need to check this
> but I didnt think they could hold enough memory to run the bgp and i thought the
> cpu were only R5000?
> 
> With a 7200/7500 you'd have no limitation on features...

cisco Catalyst 6000 (R7000) processor with 227328K/34816K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID SAD0541065U
R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache

	What features are you talking about?

	- jared

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