[c-nsp] General performance based routing question?

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Brad Hedlund wrote on 22/05/2009 19:54:
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> On 5/22/09 4:51 AM, "Tassos Chatzithomaoglou" <achatz at forthnet.gr> wrote:
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>> I believe there are 2 major drawbacks in PfR:
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>> 1) traffic-classes/prefixes are limited (5000), so you cannot use it in a ISP
>> environment 
>> (i don't know if using multiple MCs can increase that number)
>> 2) not-basic cli config is quite complex (PfR manager from Fluke seems to
>> solve that one)
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> 1) With a 7200-NPE-G2 as a dedicated Master Controller you can manage 20K
> prefixes.  Managed prefixes can be dynamically learned and always changing
> based on activity, or statically defined.
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I had the impression that 5000 was a platform independent limit. Nice to know that.
Does this also mean that 7600 or ASR1k can do more?

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Tassos

> 2) I definitely agree with that.  PfR is not just one or two commands and
> your done.  It has a lot of nerd knobs.
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> Cheers,
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> Brad Hedlund
> bhedlund at cisco.com
> http://www.internetworkexert.org
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