[c-nsp] Downsides of combining P and PE functions into a single box

[Bradford Chatterjee]

The biggest operational issue that we've encountered is that having PE
features enabled on your P routers makes your core vulnerable to quite a few
more bugs. It's not necessarily a deal breaker but you do need to be aware
of it.
On Oct 18, 2011 2:55 PM, "Herro91" <herro91 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Group,
>
> I'd like to get some feedback from the list as to potential downsides of
> combining P and PE functionality into a single router. Besides the obvious
> configuration concerns - i.e. changes being made on an edge box that is
> also
> a core, as well as additional heavy lifting for a P router - are there
> other
> items to be concerned about?
>
> This would be on high end distributed forwarding hardware (not the little
> stuff). TE is definitely a possibility in addition to L2/L3VPNs/VPLS.
>
> Please let me know if you need additional info to make the right
> conclusions.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
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