[c-nsp] Edge Router Advice

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Looking for thoughts on Sup2/MSFC2 vs Sup720 vs small GSR vs 7206VXR for
> performance??

Sup2/MSFC2 should work fine for the traffic load you mentioned.  The only 
thing you might miss is it can't do uRPF.  If you can do uRPF elsewhere in 
your network before the packets get to this router, then no problem. 
Forwarding packets, the Sup2/MSFC2 will run huge circles around a 7206. 
I'm not as familiar with the GSR...but you can get lots of line-rate FE 
ports for a 6500 pretty cheap.  With 512mb RAM and 4 full views, I still 
have about 150MB free.

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