[c-nsp] 2821 as a BGP Route Reflector

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Wed Nov 3 12:43:36 EST 2004


You must mean 12.2(20)S4.  The 7304 is delivering bug
fixes on the 12.2(20)S throttle until is is released
on code after the CEF changes were made.

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 12:37:07PM -0500, Majid Farid wrote:
> My 7304's are running 12.2.S4 but the new 7301's we got last week are
> running 12.3.6(c)...
> 
> 
> Majid Farid
> ISP Specialist
> Telecom Ottawa Limited.
> majidfarid at telecomottawa.com
> [P] 613.225.4631 ext 7220
> [F] 613.225.0636
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodney Dunn [mailto:rodunn at cisco.com] 
> Sent: November 3, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: Majid Farid
> Cc: Rodney Dunn; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net; Joshua Coombs
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 2821 as a BGP Route Reflector
> 
> 12.2(25)S images are on CCO for the 7301.
> 
> Not for the 7304 though.  That is because there
> were core CEF changes to support MPLS HA done
> and the hardware implementations on the 7304 were
> not yet ready when 12.2(25)S went out the door.
> 
> The 7304 will be shipping a bit later.  The 7301
> is a software based forwarding only architecture
> so the changes there were less impacting.
> That's why the 72xx and 75xx images are also there
> for 12.2(25)S.
> 
> You should go with 25S1 if you upgrade currently.
> 
> Rodney
> 
>  
> 
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:53:00AM -0500, Majid Farid wrote:
> > 
> > Funny a lot of features are supported on 7301 as compared to 7304. I
> > heard 12.5S5 is out for 7301 anyone confirm that?
> > 
> > Majid Farid
> > ISP Specialist
> > Telecom Ottawa Limited.
> > majidfarid at telecomottawa.com
> > [P] 613.225.4631 ext 7220
> > [F] 613.225.0636
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> > [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rodney Dunn
> > Sent: November 3, 2004 11:32 AM
> > To: Rodney Dunn
> > Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net; Joshua Coombs
> > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 2821 as a BGP Route Reflector
> > 
> > I need to make a correction here.
> > 
> > 7301 is in 12.2S not 12.0S.
> > 
> > Rodney
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 05:00:09PM -0500, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> > > 7301 is a G1 based 1RU box that I see a lot
> > > of customers use for this.  And it can run
> > > 12.0S/12.2S for all the BGP scalability 
> > > improvements.
> > > 
> > > Rodney
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Joshua Coombs wrote:
> > > > Looking to break away from iBGP meshing as our router count
> climbs,
> > > > I've been searching for a low cost Cisco box that supports a large
> > > > chunk of ram, and found the 2821.  Considering this unit(s) will
> > > > just be doing BGP, protected from the world by routers on our
> > > > network's edge, never actually routing packets, do they have
> enough
> > > > CPU to keep up with 3 uplinks providing full views (on other
> > > > routers) and 10 routers peering with it?
> > > > 
> > > > Or would I be better served looking at a 7200 and stuffing an
> NPE-G1
> > > > in it?
> > > > 
> > > > Joshua Coombs
> > > > 
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