[116053] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Sat Jul 18 00:08:26 2009
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A60ED8A.9000906@kingrst.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:09:48 +0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 18, 2009, at 4:30 AM, Steven King wrote:
> We use the 7600 platform as a Customer Border device.
The 7600 is actually quite a poor choice as an edge device (any edge)
due to its caveats regarding NetFlow, ACLs, and uRPF. It's far better
suited to a core role, where it can handle mpps running without the
need for these critical edge features.
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