[14200] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Vip Cards.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tripod)
Mon Dec 8 17:09:38 1997
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 13:55:27 -0800
From: Mark Tripod <mark@elvis.exodus.net>
To: rad@mail.usld.net
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Robert,
We run VIP2-40s in amost all of our routers. If you are going to be
pushing a lot of traffic, buy them. The best thing about them is that
they support distributed switching. It dropped the CPU load on our
routers by 40%.
Mark
Robert Davila wrote:
>
> I just have a quick qustion.
> I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
> VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations
> accross the United states. I spoke with some friends I have at cisco in
> referance to known related problems with the VIP cards (according to
> cisco there were close to non) but I am interested in some input from
> people who are already using VIP cards on 7513's.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
