[f-nsp] Looking for throughput infos

[Simon Leinen]

Richard A Steenbergen writes:
> You think so? Sup32 is little more than a rebadged sup2/msfc2 (sorry
> thats msfc2*a*, its completely different after you add that "a")
> with some optional onboard interfaces (aka the only way you'll ever
> do 10GE on the thing). In exchange, it gets a hearty crippling (at
> least sup2 you can add a fabric card). Other than supporting newer
> IOS going forward (aka Cisco forcing people to pay again), Sup32 has
> very little going for it.

What it does have is a PFC3B.  This means hardware forwarding for IPv6
and MPLS, including encapsulation and decapsulation for IPv6 in IPv4
and Ethernet in MPLS (EoMPLS), and hardware rate-limiting of packets
punted to the MSFC (CoPP).
-- 
Simon.