[c-nsp] 7600 VRF and MPLS

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Jay Young <> wrote on Friday, May 12, 2006 4:22 PM:


> I'm trying to determine if the 7609 SUP73-3B's I have will support
> VRFs and MPLS, specifically if I will be able to place the SVI's I
> currently have into VRF's and use MPLS to tie the VRF's across
> several routers together. I know with EoMPLS I need to use physical
> interfaces/sub-interfaces to get it to work but, this doesn't seem to
> work very well when you have lots of vlans heading down different
> trunks. 

Sup720-3B supports MPLS/L3VPN in the way you described it.
 
> Also will the VRFs be able to support multicast and IPv6. Cisco says
> they can scale to 500 VRFs, how much salt should I take with this
> number? 

As far as I know, much depends on the number of routes in the VRF's and
the overall number of Vlans on the router, but if you are just using it
moderately, you should be fine. 
Actually:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_data_shee
t09186a0080159856.html mentions 700 VRFs with 350 routes/VRF.

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