[c-nsp] 6500 w/sup32 as BGP edge router?

[Rene Avi]

Rutger Bevaart wrote:
> thanks everybody for the feedback so far. i have tried to summarize to the
> following points,
> 
> 1) the sup32 software is not ready yet, therefore no routing yet.
> 2) rate-limiting etc. uses the same PFC3B that the sup720 does.
> 3) routing performance will be slightly less than a sup720 as the MSFC2A
> has less horsepower than the '3 used on the sup720 has.

> 4) sup32 is not fabric enabled and thus has less throughput in the end
> (limited to the bus of 32Gbps) then a sup720.

and therefor you are limited to a subset of the linecards.

 From 
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_qanda_item0900aecd801ff38a.shtml

The following series of line cards are not supported by Sup32:
- WS-X67XX, WS-X68XX, SFM, & DFC-based cards will not work

Beside that 32 Gbps would be no limitation compared to 7xxx-routers ;)

Cheers, /Rene

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