On 09/09/2009 11:58, Todd, Douglas M. wrote:
So the 6500 is EARL7 and mpls runs in the ASIC, guess I don' understand the
difference between the EARL7 and EARL8. Thought mpls on the 6500 was also
hardware is this why the 7K earl 8 does not completely support mpls like the
6500?
It's a software thing, I understand. The N7K is pitched as a data centre
switch rather than a WAN system, so maybe it makes some sense from the
point of view of a product development manager not to implement full mpls
for the time being.
> Besided the idea of the 7K being a 6500 killer... :)
Well, sort of. It's TCAM limited to 128k FIB entries which is very low,
although I understand that it supports netflow properly, which is a real
improvement.
Why did they not make the 7K support pvst+ if the 5K supports it?
Heh, no idea :-)
Nick
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