[c-nsp] BGP: 7206vxr-G1 vs. 6503 sup2

Chris Cappuccio chris at nmedia.net
Thu Nov 10 16:10:38 EST 2005


Christopher McCrory [chrismcc at pricegrabber.com] wrote:
> Hello...
> 
> I'm adding more horsepower in my BGP core.  I am currently running
> multiple 7206VXR-300 (12.0S) with BGP/OSPF/IPv4 (for a content provider
> network, not ISP).  My transit connections are all same floor FastE/GigE
> cross connects with a backup DS3.
> 
> Q:  any advantages to using a 6503/sup2/msfc2 instead of a
> 7206VXR-NPE-G1 ?

Yeah, on the 6500 it's all hardware forwarding and therefore much, much faster

But you also get less options in software and hardware, but at the core it 
shouldn't matter much....



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