Peter Lothberg wrote: >> Ian Cox wrote: >>> At 08:48 AM 1/29/2008 -0600, Justin Shore wrote: >>>> Tim Stevenson wrote: >>>>> At 10:18 PM 1/28/2008 -0600, mack observed: >>>>>> No mention of MPLS though which gives the CRS-1 a leg up on the >>>>>> backbone routing market. >>>>> NO MPLS (though the h/w is capable). No immediate plans for it either. >>>> This would be a show-stopper for us in our Data Center. We have to have >>>> MPLS support for MPLS VPN. >>> Nexus 7000 supports VRFs for IPv4 and IPv6, so you can still use VRFs to >>> separate traffic between customers. You just do not have MPLS. You can >>> have VRFs supported without having MPLS. >> Yes, if we're talking about VRF-Lite. What about multichassis VRF >> support or VRFs in diverse geographic locations (ie data centers in >> different locations for DR purposes)? Doesn't that require MPLS VPN >> support? VRF-Lite is great but it's very limiting. I can think of a >> whole host of situations where VRF-Lite just can't cut it. Our DC is >> small but even in that environment I don't have a use for VRF-Lite. I >> hate to think of what new scenarios the big DC players bring to the >> table that require MPLS VPN features. Of course if you're that big you >> can afford to home-run your 7000s to 6509s to get the missing L3 >> features. That's not an option for us I'm afraid. > > How about using IP?
Not an option for Microsoft clusters from what I've been told. The cluster members have to be in the same broadcast domain requiring a L2 connection between points. Justin _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/