[91034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Virtual routers" from Cisco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Jun 26 17:13:06 2006
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:12:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <s4a01f74.002@server-trf8.trf3.gov.br>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, MARLON BORBA wrote:
> A friend of mine told me about a new "breed" of routers from Cisco
> which have two "virtual machines" over the same physical hardware --
> sort of a VMWare or Xen host with guests.
>
> Does someone know about that, or had a practical experience with that
> new Cisco product?
I'm pretty sure this functionality is now in the current IOS XR releases
for the CRS platform. I think there was talk about eventually porting
some of the IOS XR features to the 12000 series, but I don't know what
work has actually been done there, or if that included the routing context
capabilities.
jms
