As Justin mentioned it's hardware forwarding. This is mostly a good thing, and the QFP's will do lots of stuff in hardware, but at least so far they won't do NBAR HTTP URLs. Probably not a feature you use or care about, but there might be another such stray gotcha. Just double-check that each of your current software features are supported in the ASR hardware...
-Geoff On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Justin Shore<[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Tinka wrote: >> >> I was thinking more, ASR1000 series. Will do wire rate, has a large enough >> control plane to handle multiple full tables to customers, is the natural >> progression from the 7200-VXR platform, e.t.c. > > I second (third?) the ASR 1002 suggestion. @ list price the 5Gbps ASR 1002 > is only a few $k more than the 7206VXR w/ the NPE-G2 or the 7201. It has 5x > the backplane to boot plus it's hardware forwarding. The only real downside > IMHO is that the unit uses SPAs which require SmartNets per SPA (per license > and per a lot of other things for that matter too). Still it's a much > better box for a little bit more up front. I plan on replacing my 7206 > border routers with ASR 1002 or 1004s when the time comes. > > Justin > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
