[c-nsp] Edge Router Advice

[Paul Stewart]

Thanks for the input Jon.... The 6500 seems to make sense as we have
others in our network (3 in total - 2 core and 1 distribution) so spare
line cards and supervisors are already in place in case of something
real drastic.  Plus, the 6500's have been our "crown jewel" of
routers... Rock solid and very few problems ever either code wise or
hardware wise....

;)

Paul
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Lewis [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:56 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Edge Router Advice

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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