[c-nsp] 7500 PPPoE dCEF aggregation

[Niels Bakker]

* jmaimon at ttec.com (Joe Maimon) [Sun 16 Jan 2005, 20:54 CET]:
> Being that the 7500 is the largest distributed platform (that I know of) 
> that supports the enterprise/fw feature set (jk9o3sv) does anyone else 
> have an interest in seeing PPPoE aggregation become dCEF instead of 
> being CEF punted to the RSP?
> 
> Cisco claims nobody wants it and has junked previous feature requests.

VIPs have puny CPUs and would be real bad at it.  Recent RSPs have much
beefier CPUs on them, it makes sense to do that processing there.

I believe that's more like the rationale given out by Cisco...


	-- Niels.

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