[c-nsp] 7201 cpu (revisited)

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:27:41PM -0500, Justin Shore wrote:
> I was told once that the 7301 was a NPE-G1 on a stick but I've never 
> had my hands on one to confirm.  

"Sort of".  

They could have made it a "single-slot NPE-G1", but they decided to make 
it "just a leetle bit diff'rent" - interfaces are named differently
(NPE-G1: gi0/1...gi0/3, 7301: gi0/0...gi0/2), NPE-G1 is GBIC-based
while 7301 is SFP-based, and other small things.

As a consequence, you get separate IOS images for the 7301, and 
different hardware-adaption layer bugs.

If I had anything to say about this - I'd fire the person who was 
responsible for making the 7301 "just a little bit different".  I can 
see no good in it, and I have felt some of the pain.

gert

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