[c-nsp] Cisco Switch Portfolio Miss

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:15:01PM -0700, Pete Templin wrote:
> On 9/12/13 11:30 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> >To be fair, one would need to compare software features - so what does
> >the N3K do?  L2 only?  L3, with how many routes?  IPv6, MPLS?
> 
> Gert, you don't want to explore the N3K, you'll have 6500 heartburn all 
> over again.  URPF halves the route table size, max 16k routes (but v6 
> routes count double), a separate memory space for host routes, very 
> limited ACL TCAM and it has to be carved up for v4/v6 at boot time. 

Yay.

But I wouldn't want to use that as a "core router", more like "a switch
with lots of 10GE ports, and maybe some functionality for doing EoMPLS
across datacenters or such" - so "a few 100 IPv4/IPv6 routes" would
be plenty for that role.  Like the Extreme thingies, but with a less
confusing CLI :-)

> NXOS for this platform seems very buggy, so one might end up doing 
> endless code upgrades to get past showstopper bugs, only to encounter 
> more bugs in the next build.

I'm not particularily surprised, but that's not encouraging either... :-/

gert

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