[c-nsp] 6506, can I do routing with this hardware

[Dave Temkin]

Yes, it still will do L3 switching.  The forwarding path changed in the
Sup2, but there's no reason why the Sup1A can't handle your needs.

-Dave

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, james edwards wrote:

> I have a customer with  a 6506, two WS-X6K-S1A-MSFC2's (Sup 1-A, 2GE, MSFC-2
> & PFC, one WS-X6182-2PA (Flex Wan Mod), and one PA-T3. He is
> looking at using the PA-T3/Flex Wan to route traffic between two colos, a
> router would be on the other side. The 6506 would have no more than 100
> prefixes learned via IGP or static. Ability to police, shape or match and
> tag/drop packets is not required nor is any special queuing.
>
> I gather this Sup does not do CEF, and is early. Do I have the hardware to
> do this amount of routing in the configuration I mentioned above ?
>
> james
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