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

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:23:23PM +0200, Mark wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> A 100 MHz R4700 is what i get from a cisco 3640 and this is not so good 
> for BGP peerings. Right??

"It depends".  A 3640 won't do full BGP with loads of traffic, no.

But for "just some few 1000's of routes and some 10-20 mbit/s of traffic"
is something the 3640 will handle pretty well.

(Also the RSM seems to be faster from our observations than a 3640 - 
might be due to faster buses or encapsulation/decapsulation hardware,
can't say).

gert
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