[c-nsp] 6500/7600 with Sup720 opinion

[Jon Lewis]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Ryan O'Connell wrote:

> I thought the 7600 MPLS functionality was severely limited - could only
> act as a core, not edge device or similar? (I forget the details)
>
> (We're deploying 7600s next month, MPLS won't be needed immediately but
> we'll need it in around 6 months time - was planning to use 7200s at the
> edge)

AFAIK, it depends on the supervisor.  AFAIK 3B and 3BXL give you full MPLS
VPN P/PE functionality (more VRFs/routes per VRF on the 3BXL).  Original
Sup720 does not.  Sup2 doesn't either.

For now, we're keeping 7200/7500 routers for MPLS.

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