[c-nsp] sup2t XL with non XL linecards

Tony Varriale tvarriale at comcast.net
Thu Nov 22 15:30:10 EST 2012


On 11/22/2012 2:11 PM, . . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_qanda_item09186a00809a7673.shtml
>
> Thanks, that link helps a bit, but still a bit unclear on things. =) Assuming I
> don't need the performance and the 30 Mpps of sup2t is fine for a centralized
> forwarding system, and happy to have linecards send packets over the fabric for
> forwarding by the supervisor, do I need XL at all, or if full tables with ~400k
> routes are required, I must get the XL version of sup2t?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
You'll need XL.  Non-XL FIB is 256k raw.  XL FIB is 1M raw.

FYI 30 mpps is IPv6 in Sup2T land.

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