[c-nsp] c7604 "starter kit"

[Peter Rathlev]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 14:31 +0100, Adam Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 13:23 +0200, Philippe Strauss wrote:
> > I've heard once upon a time a 8 port GigE linecard was available and
> > not anymore. will the 8 port fixed GigE (not 10/100 but only 1000) of
> > the cat6500 line work in a c7600?
>
> Almost always, yes. There are some cards which won't, such as the the 8 
> port 10GE card.

C7600/SRC supports the WS-X6708-10G-3C{,XL}. The 16 port WS-X6716-10G-3C
is 6500 only though.

> A 7600 with RSP 7200 will do lots of full tables. All lan cards will do 
> ports as L3. You might want to look at buying the lan cards 2nd user, 
> they're an order of magnitude cheaper than new! (especially older cards 
> like the WS-X6148G).

Beware of the non-fabric-enabled and 8:1 oversubscribed 6148 cards.
They're LAN cards, so they have all the PFC features, but capacity wise
they're not exactly brilliant.

Regards,
Peter