[113255] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: options for full routing table in 1 year?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Tsacas)
Thu Apr 9 11:46:23 2009
In-Reply-To: <1D70CF0F-3B90-4E60-AE4F-1A6E26972FA7@netconsonance.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 17:39:55 +0200
From: Stephane Tsacas <stephane.tsacas@gmail.com>
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 17:17, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:
> 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?
On the line card.
> Upgrading the DFC requires a line-card swap, or just a DFC daughter-card?
>
You remove the standard CFC daughter card and put the DFC instead.
--
Stephane
Paris, France.
