On 6/27/11 11:59 AM, Jason Greenberg wrote: > Can someone advise me as to why a 3750 L3 Switch (Metro Model) wouldn't > outperform a 7300 series router as a multi-homed BGP gateway? ISRs and > Enterprise class routers are still quite a bit more expensive than the L3 > Switches, but I'm starting to not understand why. I understand that L3 > switches are less feature rich on the routing end, but suppose that our ASAs > are doing most of the complicated filtering. I know it doesn't sound > "right" to have a 3750G used in this manner, but I am having a hard time > finding any real reason why not to do it.
The memory and number of routes are far too small to use these as a border router. Generally adequate for iBGP to inject customer routes into your network but way too little for an Internet-facing border. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - j...@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV _______________________________________________ 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/
