[c-nsp] Cat6500 - Support for MPLS and IPv6

[Stephen Fulton]

Gert,

FWIW, I spent a lot of time researching the 6500/7600 BU issue in 
preparation for our last round of upgrades.  The best (and most honest) 
answer I got about service provider software features on the 6500 series 
was this:  We'll still support MPLS, IPv6 etc, but new feature may be 
released on the 7600 series first, and made available for the 6500 
series later.  It was also implied that some specific features may not 
make the 6500 code train at all.

-- Stephen

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:52:04PM -0400, Juno Guy wrote:
>> It is my understanding that somewhere after the 12.2SX release MPLS and IPv6
>> will no longer be supported on the 6500 (but will continue to be supported
>> on the 7600 as I understand).  
> 
> Well, as far as I understand, this is currently not the case, and I haven't
> seen any announcement to that extent.  (Except as has already been written:
> the *modular* variant of SXF had no support for either, but that was "not
> yet", and not "not any longer").
> 
> OTOH, personally, I have great distrust for the 7600/6500 BUs, and it
> wouldn't surprise me to come to a point in the future where I need to
> decide "do I want support for 32 bit AS numbers, or do I want support 
> for my existing hardware".  Cisco needs to do a *lot* to get back the
> customer trust that these two BUs have destroyed.
> 
> gert
> 
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