[c-nsp] 6500/7600 with Sup720 opinion

[Mohacsi Janos]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> David,
>
> bambi at Hughes.com.au (David J. Hughes) wrote:
>
>>> I thought the platform was ideal for this, so what's the problem with
>>> 76/65 IOS versions?
>>
>> Basic IPv4 functionality (i.e. BGP, OSPF, netflow, acl) is rock solid
>> on this platform.  There are some horrible IOS bugs but the only ones
>> that have caused us issues is when we've tried something more
>> "adventurous".  Haven't used 65xx in an MPLS environment or with v6, or
>> NSF, or SSO etc etc and I'm sure there's issues down those lines.  But,
>> for basic routing/switching, it's a great platform.
>
> Alright, we'll be using them for v6 too, and I believe we should go
> forward with it, even if Cisco's software advisor doesn't know about
> SUP720 images, and even if there's no 12.3 or at least T train
> available...there's 12.2S, this should hopefully do (we don't need
> MPLS at the moment)
>

You can have quite good information via the feature navigator, what is 
available for certain releases. You get similar features on sup720 with 
12.2.(16)SXD{1,2,3} what you get on Cisco 7200 with 12.2(18)S (provider 
line of images).

Best Regards,



Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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