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

David Barak thegameiam at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 17 19:10:17 EST 2005


--- "David J. Hughes" <bambi at Hughes.com.au> 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.

point taken, but I consider that more of a
"forwarding" function than a "routing" function: most
things which are designed as routers have more of the
useful routing knobs than the switches do.

David Barak
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