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

[masood at nexlinx.net.pk]

AFAIK VPLS is not supported on the Catalyst 6500 series. You should
upgrade to the 7600 series with enhanced core facing interfaces, such as
ES-cards or SIP-400/600 cards.

Regards,
Masood

> 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-----
>> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [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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