[c-nsp] BFD bug in IOS SXF6

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:24:03PM +0000, kevin gannon wrote:
> Is this not what the QNX based IOS-XR brings us ?

Sure, and all you have to do is wait until 2009 (and then replace all of 
your existing 6500/7600s with something new) to get it. The reality is 
that Cisco doesn't want to undercut the GSR/CRS1 any more than is 
necessary to sell the 6500/7600 to enterprises and non-bankrupt ISPs. 
Keeping the RP CPU underpowered, the IOS scheduler po0rr, and the policy 
functionality weak is a great way to do that, which is why there is no 
rush to get XR on the 6500/7600.

Personally I wish there was a sensible way to offload BGP from those boxes 
completely, since it is really their weakest area (and biggest CPU suck) 
by far. Quite a few people use external cheap and beefy-cpu J-series 
Juniper's as internal route reflectors, but there is no good replacement 
for the directly connected eBGP liveness tests (plus good luck getting 
large networks to configure anything resembling ebgp-multihop :P).

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