[70007] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Sun Apr 25 08:09:23 2004
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:08:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Alexander Hagen <alexander@etheric.net>
Cc: "'Robert E. Seastrom'" <rs@seastrom.com>,
"'Tom (UnitedLayer)'" <tom@unitedlayer.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <003801c42ab2$dfda7dc0$aa390618@geronimo>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alexander Hagen wrote:
> 1) Catalyst 6006 w/ CATALYST 6000 SUPERVISOR ENGINE 1-A, 2GE, PLUS MSFC
> & PFC
Yuck. Unless you have very few flows you do not want to use MSFC1/PFC1.
This platform would be good for a file server with few but highspeed
flows.
> This system costs somewhere around 1300.00 more than a:
> Cisco 7505 w RSP4 256 Plus (2) VIP 2-50/128 and 3 PA-FE-TX
>
> Obviously the Catalyst is a better unit. But will it be as "burned in"
> and robust as the venerable 7505 ?
The 7505 will probably handle lots of flows massively better than the
SUP1A.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
