[c-nsp] Cisco Catalyst 3750's - BGP

[Jeff Kell]

David J. Hughes wrote:
> On 18/02/2005, at 8:15 AM, David Barak wrote:
> 
>>I've always been a strong proponent of using routers
>>for routing, rather than switches.
> 
> I was of that mindset until the day we used a L3 ACL on a spare 2950 
> access switch to filter out a DOS attack that was killing an NPE-G1.  
> If the 3750 is really like a mini Cat6k then it's certainly worth a 
> look as a routing platform.

Very true, except at the bleeding edge, where it's bloody expensive 
regardless :-)

The traditional router is turning into CPE for your WAN, converting it 
to the more commodity 10/100/1000/10000 ethernet domain.

Jeff