[c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

[Majid Farid]

I am running 4 7304's with NSE-100. They are good routers the only issue
we have encountered so far is IOS train is still pretty buggy. We have
done upgrades twice last year due to different bug and another one is
due now. The bandwidth test we did using IXIA we did were not bad. If I
remember correctly we stared to see 4% packet lost at around 800mbps
witn 64 bytes packet size. Also I have no issues running BGP full routes
on them.

--
Majid Farid
Network Specialist
Telecom Ottawa

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of McCallum, Robert
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:39 AM
To: 'Robert Blayzor'; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

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).  

Robert McCallum 
CCIE #8757 R&S


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Blayzor [mailto:rblayzor at inoc.net] 
> Sent: 14 January 2005 15:30
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router
> 
> 
> We are exploring purchasing a couple of new border routers for our 
> network.  We've explored the 7600's but they seem to be way 
> overkill for 
> what we want to do.
> 
> Day one we will probably use them to aggregate a few DS3/OC3 
> connections 
> to upstreams with full BGP tables, etc.  We also want to use them for 
> some aggregated Ethernet connections over Gig-E...
> 
> We've looked at the pluses and minuses of the NSE100 vs the G100.  It 
> seems the G100's processing power and DRAM capacity is a 
> better fit for 
> us, especially for the routing tables.
> 
> I'm looking for anyones comments or experiences with using 
> 7300's in a 
> border router deployment and if it's meeting your needs.  I'm 
> curious as 
> to what type and how much traffic you are pushing through it.
> 
> -- 
> Robert Blayzor, BOFH
> INOC, LLC
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