[64012] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Temkin, David)
Tue Oct 14 09:00:25 2003
From: "Temkin, David" <temkin@sig.com>
To: "'Michel Py'" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:54:02 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
... And seeing as that all most switches are is a glorified multiple port
bridge, feel free to go to your 7500 and make it a switch by placing
"bridge-group 1" on every port, and if you want to get really crazy and make
it a L3 switch, go all out and put in a "bridge 1 route ip". :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Py [mailto:michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:02 PM
To: Richard A Steenbergen; Mikael Abrahamsson
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Extreme BlackDiamond
> Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> So a 7500 with a fast cache is a L3 switch? :)
Of course. It does wire-speed switching with one and
Possibly more CX-EIP6 if you enable dCEF :-)
Michel.
