[c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

Clinton Work clinton at scripty.com
Fri Jan 14 13:04:12 EST 2005


Careful, PXF based routers are great until you run into a feature that 
is not supported in hardware. I ran into a lot of feature limits of
the 7200 NSE-1 processor. There is always a trade off between features
and performance.


McCallum, Robert wrote:
> Yep not a problem running with the 7304's mate.  However, (yes there is a
> however).  DO NOT TOUCH THE NPE-G100 with a BARGE POLE.  It's a 7200 in
> disguise.  Opt for the NSE-100.  Everything you are looking to do shall be
> done in PXF when using the NSE-100.  The NSE-100 can shift ~4or5 gigs in
> total across its backplane whereas the NPE-G100 can shift ~(too embarressed
> to say in a public forum + Cisco would send round the heavies).  



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