[113252] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: options for full routing table in 1 year?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Thu Apr 9 11:27:31 2009
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Tim Durack <tdurack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e246b4d0904081843x1eb8947fsa831cacf4b8333bc@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:17:16 -0700
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Tim Durack wrote:
>> Cisco 6500/7600 you replace SUP32 or SUP720 with SUP720-3BXL
>> ...if I understand it, no other cards need replaced?
>> (note that this disagrees with my understanding of how their
>> FIB/CEF
>> works so I'm curious about this)
>
> If you have linecard DFCs they would need to be XLs also.
The DFCs are what make hardware forwarding possible, yeah? Upgrading
the DFC requires a line-card swap, or just a DFC daughter-card?
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Jo Rhett
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