[c-nsp] Additional FE Ports on 2821

[Dave Temkin]

This has been answered about 20 times now :-)

SVI's only on the HWIC's, and L3 interfaces on the NME-X switches.

-Dave

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Brian Desmond wrote:
>
> > I need to add additional FE ports (at least one) on a pair of 2821s
> > which will have BGP feeds from upstream ISPs. Looking at Cisco's list of
> > WICs for the 2800 series, there are no WIC-2FE or WIC-4FE (they have
> > these for the 3800 series though).
> >
> > Cisco has a HWIC-4ESW which is the little switch widget, but, I can't
> > figure out if the ports are layer 3 capable or if worst case I can stand
> > up SVIs on the module/router?
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5853/products_qanda_item0900aecd8016c026.shtml
>
> Looks like they do support SVIs and unlike earlier WIC etherswitches, the
> HWIC version is not severely router bandwidth limited.
>
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