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Re: Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 to TOR

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Bromirski?)
Thu Nov 12 18:46:45 2009

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:45:48 +0100
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Bromirski?= <lukasz@bromirski.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4AFC8014.3010407@davidcoulson.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 2009-11-12 22:37, David Coulson wrote:

> The MX-series are pretty nice. That should be able to do VPLS PE,
> however I've never tried it - MX240 did it pretty well last time I
> tried. I've no clue how the cost of that switch compares to a cisco 490=
0
> or something (not that a 4900 is anything special - L3 is all in softwa=
re).

For both 4948/4948-10GE and 4900M L3 is in hardware. For
4948/4948-10GE IPv6 is in software, for 4900M it's in hardware.

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i
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