[c-nsp] 72000VXR vs Juniper ERS-310 for PPPoE termination

[Robert E. Seastrom]

sthaug at nethelp.no writes:

> We have found empirically that many of the limits specified here are
> *not* hard limits - for instance, we have had 310s in production with
> well over 9000 IP interfaces per line card even if the documented max
> is 8000, with no apparent ill effects.

This is interesting.  Now I'm curious about the architecture and
implementation.  Anyone got any pointers?

                                        ---Rob