[nsp] service provider or service provider/vip ?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:13:37PM -0500, John Jackson wrote:
> Surely they didn't do away with vip support.  As far as I know all non-vip
> cards are EOL, or will be soon.  When I did a feature navigator to compare
> these two it said that these features are unique to sp/vip.  Everything else
> is the same
> Distibuted Traffic Policing 
[..]
> Distributed WFQ (dWFQ) support for RSVP 

Of course you can only do "Distributed Anything" if you have CPU boards
to distribute *to* -> namely VIPs.  The non-VIP line cards in a 7500 are
just "dumb" interface adaptors, no local CPU to do anything distributed.

> Also sp/vip is 5Mb larger

It contains much more IOS code :-)

gert
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