[c-nsp] Cat5000 and BGP

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Lawrence Wong <> wrote on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:27 AM:

> --- Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:52:47AM -0800, Lawrence
>> Wong wrote:
>>> Has anyone tried before? Or for the matter tried more
>>> exquisite configs like MPLS, IPv6, etc on such a
>>> combi?
>> 
>> Well, we do IPv6 over a 7200/PA-FE-TX -(trunk)->
>> Cat5k, but without
>> MLS (not enough traffic to warrant any experiments).
> 
> I understand that currently full feed BGP Cisco
> routers suffer from the "per minute BGP scanner CPU
> hog" symptom which translates to occasional high
> latency when pinging the router.
> 
> If the router is to run in MLS mode with the Cat5k,
> would this high latency symtom be elevated?

No, MLS affects traffic through the box, not packets sent to the router.

	oli