[67027] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sat Jan 31 05:56:20 2004
To: lstarrett@nc.rr.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:47:38 -0500"
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:55:45 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > PXF is found in the 7400 (old) and 7300 (newer) series.
>
> Not true. 7401 has a PXF. It's essentially an NSE-1 with GE/IO in a
> pizza box. 7301 is based on the NPE-G1 and doesn't have a PXF anywhere
> in sight.
On the other hand, the (original) 7304 used PXFs, on the NSE-100
forwarding engine. Cisco later introduced the NPE-G100 for the
7304 with a much more powerful CPU, but no PXF.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
