[c-nsp] ipv6 on a sup32?

[Christian MacNevin]

Thanks. Yeah, I know we do use them for it, just not super reliable evidently.

It'll need to be capable of decent ipv6 ACLs too, in case that wasn't obvious in
the requirement.

-----Original Message-----
From: John van Oppen [mailto:jvanoppen at spectrumnet.us] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:49 PM
To: Christian MacNevin; Elmar K. Bins
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] ipv6 on a sup32?

The 3750s do support a fair amount of v6, they just have some strange caviats...   we have about 1000 customers downstream of 3750s where v6 is enabled.

John van Oppen
Spectrum Networks 
http://spectrumnetworks.us
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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Christian MacNevin
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:33 PM
To: Elmar K. Bins
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ipv6 on a sup32?

Well, it has to accommodate a reasonable number of ports - it's going to be a 
distribution router/switch, really. So I'm not sure I want to use an ASR for that,
given the port density issue. And router-on-a-stick is OK, but frankly I'd rather
just 'get er done' in one case.

Thanks


-----Original Message-----
From: Elmar K. Bins [mailto:elmi at 4ever.de] 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 12:16 PM
To: Christian MacNevin
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ipv6 on a sup32?

Re Christian,

cmacnevin at silverspringnet.com (Christian MacNevin) wrote:

> I'm considering whether it's worth going from a 3750 configuration as a low-end site core router to a
> 6504/sup32 config. The key here really being that I want better exposure to ipv6 routing and features
> should we need them.
> 
> Is this realistic? Anybody done it or have any caveats?

Sticking to the price range (somehow...I know there are good deals
on SUP32s), I'd go for an ASR.

Apart from that, if you only want the exposure but don't need all
the prefixes in your forwarding box, why not couple the 3750 to
a capable BGP router, like a 7301 (aka NPE-G1-in-a-RU) or even
a 7401 like I'm doing in my private network. Or use some nice
little appliance with some open source route software (Quagga,
OpenBGPd...).

If you need all the prefixes for your fowarding decision, you
will certainly want to go with a big hardware-forwarding router
like the ASR - which works nicely on v6.

Elmar.


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