[c-nsp] BGP on Catalyst 5505???

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:25:51PM +0200, Mark wrote:
> What is the difference between RSFC and RMS?

The RSM is a separate blade that fills one of the catalyst slots, and 
contains what is about as powerful as a Cisco 7500 RSP2 (100 MHz R4700).

IOS for RSM is available up to 12.2 main line.


The RSFC is a daughter card for some supervisors, e.g. the Sup III G.
It's more powerful than the RSM (200 MHz R5000), but unfortunately it's
only supported up to IOS 12.1 - resulting in the perverse situation
that you can't really use the faster board for interfaces with higher
throughput (= requiring a faster router...) if you need interface-based 
accounting, as the RSFC has no 64 bit counters, while the RSM has...

The RSFC could have been a *really* nice engine, but Cisco product 
marketing has effectively made it much less useful than it could be.

gert
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