[c-nsp] MPLS hardware

[Peter Rathlev]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 05:18 -0800, Buhrmaster, Gary wrote:
> My recollection is that the original SUP720s (with the PFC3A) are not
> supported for running MPLS.  One may want to verify that if one
> considers the used/reconditioned market for hardware sourcing.

That's correct. They need PFC3B-cards to do MPLS. You can do a field
upgrade, mounting a PFC3B(/XL) later though. There are some features
that early Supervisors won't do though, like ERSPAN for HW-version
before 3.2 or something.

Regards,
Peter