[c-nsp] Cisco 7507 RSP4+ with VIP-2 and 2PA-FE-TX

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Howard Leadmon wrote:
>>> For home use, just find some GEIP units, not the GEIP+ units, as there is a
>>> HUGE different in the resale value as I am sure you know. If I remember my
>>> reading correctly, the older GEIP is still good for 3-400mbps, if your running
>>> more than that wow.
>>  From what I've been seeing, it doesn't make that much of a difference.
>>   The GEIP+ goes for about $100 more.  I'm seeing GEIP cards for $850
>> and the GEIP+ cards for $950.  Either would be outside of my price range.
> 
> Humm, and I haven't followed them for a while, so sure it's all dropped, but
> when I was last watching eBay for the suckers, the GEIP sold for about
> 750-1000, and the GEIP+ sold for about 3000-4000.   If they GEIP+ is now down
> to under a 1000, I agree it's a no-brainer.  The VIP4-80 is a far nicer VIP
> than the VIP2-50, which is what the GEIP+/GEIP's are based on. 

Yeah, I'm definitely thinking of upgrading to the VIP4.

>> I'm definitely not pushing 400Mbps continuously.  As you would imagine
>> for a home network, my traffic is *very* peaky, but if I could get my
>> peaky transfers as fast as possible, I'd be happy.
> 
> Really at home, your internal traffic around the house shouldn't be routed
> unless your really doing something unusual or for play.  For that type of
> stuff a nice Catalyst switch, maybe even one with L3 if you need routing would
> handle that peaky traffic much better.

Well, what I'm doing could probably be considered "unusual".  I have one 
network for which the firewall is mostly open which contains 
outward-facing servers.  I have a second network for which the firewall 
is mostly closed, and which uses NAT, and contains my internal 
workstations and Sun Rays among other things.  The third network is 
another private network, but is separate because it carries mostly 
DECnet traffic for my VAX/Alpha cluster.  Performance improved a lot 
when I started segregating this traffic away from the other stuff.  The 
fourth network is my outbound link.  The fifth is a permanent VPN link 
to my father's private network at my parents' house.

>>> Outside of BGP table issues, I wouldn't even touch it, it's been a great
>>> router.  I have it running 12.2S, in SSO mode with dual RSP4's, a couple
>> of
>>> the GEIP+'s, and all the other cards are all on VIP4-80's as well.
>> That's a pretty nice setup.  I am probably going to try to upgrade to
>> RSP4 + VIP4 soon.
> 
> I know some seem to have terrible issues with the 75xx units, but knock on
> wood, this thing has been a rock. Shy of someone DDOSing the hell out of it, I
> never have any problems. I almost hate to loose the redundant RSP's upgrading
> to a 7206VXR, but I just couldn't justify putting a 76xx router with a
> SUP720-3BXL in to run the co-lo stuff.  Granted I can't say I recall any of my
> 7206's at the old company ever failing, so hopefully the new NPE-G2 will be a
> champ as well.
> 
> Here is the old stuff that is still online and running, just real close to
> being out of RAM for BGP..
> 
> http://gallery.leadmon.org/d/5637-2/DSC03352.jpg

This is at work, I assume?

I'd love to be able to multi-home at the house, but getting an IP block 
would probably be waay too expensive.  At least until IPv6 hits, I guess.

I'm still using 7500s at work right now, but we're going to upgrading to 
7600s soon.  I'm not really a network guy, having come up through the 
programming areas, but being a technical lead now, I find I have to 
learn a little bit of everything.  Lurking on this list has taught me a lot.

Peace...  Sridhar