[c-nsp] 7206vxr/300 vs 7507/rsp4

[Eric Kagan]

> > any direct comparisons of actual performance between a 
> 7507/RSP4 and a 
> > 7206VXR/300 and/or 7026 non VXR/200 NPE ?  (Like you had a 7200 
> > running a job at XX CPU, etc and replaced it with similar 
> 7500 config 
> > and it ran aat XX CPU...)  I am looking to run a border router (4-5 
> > BGP Full Feed w/ peers) with 2 or 3 Fast Ethernet handoffs 
> sustaining 
> > around 60-80MB/sec and wants thoughts on which device is 
> best for this 
> > job.  I hear a lot of xx router is
> 
> I think a NPE200 is out of the question due to its 128mb RAM 
> limit.  You won't get 4 (probably not even 1 or 2) full BGP 
> feeds into 128mb on a 7206.

Sorry - I was looking for some type of direct comparison.  I didn't mean for
200/128MB for BGP with full routes.  The VXR/300, 256MB is doing that now.
 
> Is that 60-80mbits a total of all the FEs, and do you expect 
> much growth over time?

Yes, constant growth.

 
> Having done the migration of 7206VXR -> 7500 (RSP4/VIP2-50s) 
> -> 6509 (SUP2/MSFC2/PFC2), I'd say save yourself the 
> aggravation and if the $ is there, go straight to the 6509.  
> On the 7500s, we started having trouble when single FE 
> interfaces got anywhere near full (actually, not really even 
> near full...they just had trouble in general).  HSRP over ISL 
> works...we did it for a while.  If you have many VLANs, keep 
> in mind the VIP2 can't handle many virtual MAC addresses, so 
> you have to play some games to get around that.

The big question is, aside from RSP redundancy, is the 7500 going to give me
anything better/more than a 7200 ?

Thanks
Eric