It would work fine. Watch the CPU and memory to gauge scalability as you grow.
Rodney On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 03:34:48PM +1000, Andy Saykao wrote: > Hi All, > > We have a few spare 7301's out the back and I was thinking of using one > of them to be a NAT-PE router. No biggie with doing this but I was > wondering if the NAT-PE router could also take on other roles which > would be beneficial in a MPLS VPN environment such as using it to act as > a SSL VPN Gateway for remote access. Could the same unit also be used to > act as a Route Reflector to reflect VPNv4 routes? Or am I putting too > much load on the router and/or putting all my eggs in one basket? > > At present, we don't have many MPLS VPN customers yet but the hope is to > make things scalable so we can grow comfortable as the number of VPN > customers grow. > > In summary, is it a good idea to use the 7301 to preform the following > roles: > > - NAT-PE / Internet Gateway > - SSL VPN Gateway > - BGP Route Reflector > > Ideas, comments, personal experiences, etc most welcomed. > > Thanks. > > Andy > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended > solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. > Please notify the sender immediately by email if you have received this > email by mistake and delete this email from your system. Please note that > any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the > author and do not necessarily represent those of the organisation. > Finally, the recipient should check this email and any attachments for > the presence of viruses. The organisation accepts no liability for any > damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/