[c-nsp] BGP Tunnel or other alternative

[Steve Francis]

Brian Feeny wrote:

>
> 1. The Cat6500's do not run BGP.  I have heard from others that 6500's 
> can't
> handle BGP well, and so have avoided it.  If someone has something to say
> contrary to this, please let me know (perhaps an IOS version) so I can 
> look into this
> as running BGP on the 6500's is a solution.
>
In my experience, 6500's with 512 MB Sup2  or above running in native 
mode handle BGP fine. Hybrid mode resulted in lots of bad crashes on BGP 
6500's, but that was several years ago.
Native has always been fine re BGP, at least for 2 full peerings, a 
dozen peers and a few iBGP sessions, which was the most I put on one.