[70008] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Hagen)
Sun Apr 25 08:42:14 2004
From: "Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net>
To: "'Mikael Abrahamsson'" <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: "'Robert E. Seastrom'" <rs@seastrom.com>,
"'Tom (UnitedLayer)'" <tom@unitedlayer.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 05:41:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404251406210.14498-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Yes. I've been looking at it and a 7505 with a 3550 behind it seems the
way to go for our type of operation.
As a cost cutting alternative - has anyone played with the 2900 XL
series using sub interfaces to turn them into virtual router ports ? or
vlan groups ?
Is it better to just buy a 3550 ?
Alexander Hagen
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike@swm.pp.se]
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 5:09 AM
To: Alexander Hagen
Cc: 'Robert E. Seastrom'; 'Tom (UnitedLayer)'; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200
or other vendor ?
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
