[c-nsp] Packeteer & Cisco Config?

[Rick Coloccia]

Hi Folks-

I apologize for the cross-posting...

I'm hoping there's someone out there who has done something like what I 
hope to do soon.

I need to better control my Internet and I2 connections.  I have a Packet 
Shaper 6500 and a Packet Shaper 4500 at my disposal.

Here's my design:

PS4500 is on the shelf.

Cisco Catalyst 6513 connects via fiber to the PS6500 which connects via 
copper to a Cisco 7304 router.

The 7304 connects via atm up with two atm PVCs, one going to I2 (NYSERNet) 
and one to commodity Internet (Qwest).

The 7304 speaks BGP to the routers at the far end of the two PVCs.  The 
7304 speaks RIPv2 to the Catalyst 6513, the LAN core.


It has been suggested to me that enabling BGP on my Catalyst 6513 may help 
me, as well as using VRF on the 7304, so that
(this is where things get fuzzy for me) the core knows where the traffic is 
destined to when it leaves the core, and sends it to the correct packet shaper.

VRF allows me to have two "routers" within the one 7304, each router having 
two interfaces, one atm interface and one copper interface (The 7304 has 3 
copper 10/100/1000 interfaces)

This thinking has me come out of the 6513 via copper or fiber with two 
separate lines, one into a PS4500 and one into a PS6500, and then from the 
4500 and 6500 into the two "routers" in the 7304.

I'm unsure of the configuration that might even make this work.

Does anyone have any thoughts, comments, or suggestions for me?


Thanks in advance!



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Rick Coloccia
Network Manager
State University of New York College at Geneseo
119 South Hall
1 College Circle
Geneseo, NY 14454