[nsp] Catalyst 4506 comparison with 6506

[Hroi Sigurdsson]

Charlie Winckless wrote:

> The big caveat here is that the 'feature' licence
> to do any reasonable routing protocol is another
> $10k (since it's just to match Extreme, etc, in
> this market space), and I don't /think/ they do
> BGP

They do (at least 4006/SupIII), but Cisco does not recommend more than 
100k prefixes. I've loaded a full table (110k) on a 4006/SupIII without 
any noticable problems but I have not tested it very much. Maybe they 
are just discouraging use in a role where they would rather sell you a 
6500 instead (or, more likely, I'm just paranoid). There is a bugnote 
CSCdv20786 for missing BGP Policy Accounting feature, maybe it will be 
implemented sometime? On the other hand 6500 does not have this feature 
either.
In my experience Netflow export does not work at all on 4006.

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