[c-nsp] MPLS/IP-VPN capable cards on Cat 6500

[Marlon Duksa]

Thanks Arie. But ES cards are not supported on Cat6500, no? And also VPLS
over MPLS on a SIP in Cat6500 - is it supported? If so do you know which
SIP?Thanks,
Marlon

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Arie Vayner (avayner) <avayner at cisco.com>wrote:

> Marlon,
>
> If you have DFCs on the regular LAN cards, then EoMPLS and L3VPN will be
> done in hardware and in distributed forwarding mode.
> For VPLS, you need to have either an ES20/ES40 card or a SIP card facing
> the core. Having this card means that again VPLS is done in hardware -
> some functionality is done on the regular DFCs and some on the egress
> core facing module.
>
> Arie
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Marlon Duksa
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 02:07
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] MPLS/IP-VPN capable cards on Cat 6500
>
> Hi -Does anyone know which cards on Cat6500 support MPLS
> and separately IP-VPN, posibly at 40Gbps throughput? I'm looking for a
> distributed (DFC) forwarding solution?
>
> I know that Cat6500 is very limited in VPLS support, but IP-VPN and
> EoMPLS
> should be no problem, right?
>
> Thanks,
> Marlon
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