[c-nsp] mpls performance on 7500/7200

[matthew zeier]

Nick Shah wrote:
> Matthew
> 
> In my opinion, its different beast - different talk. What do you want to
> do with 72/7500 ? I am running some quite feature rich PE features on
> 7200 , prolly not the best thing you may want out of a P though. 
> 
> I personally have found the 7200/7301 to be the swiss army knife, which
> happens to run virtually most features at reasonable price/performance
> matrix.
> 
> 7500 a little bit similar, but to watch out for considering most of the
> line being EOL/EOS. 
> 
> Again, beg the question, what do you want to run them as P or PE ?

PE - trying to build a centralized firewall solution for leased line 
customers.  I enabled two mpls interfaces on a 7200 yesterday and immediately 
started getting calls on performance which went away as soon as I did a "no 
tag-switching ip'.  I hadn't even configured any vrfs.