I have a customer who wishes to be multi-homed with us and another Service Provider and wishes to have 2 full views. We proposed a Cisco 7206VXR-NPE-G1 with 1Gb/256 and the other vendor (a small ISP) provided him with a 7304-NSE-100 and a SPA2-1Gb card as a solution. He has 1Gb with 100Mb commit Metro-E from both providers. Surprisingly, I had never seen a 7304 before used for anything but MPLS tunnel termination. When I looked it up on the Cisco router performance chart is shows the NSE-100 about 3 times the performance of the NPE-G1 but uses PXF instead of just plain old CEF.
Questions: 1. What is PXF in comparison to normal CEF? 2. Will this router be able to route 500Mb/sec while processing BGP tables? 3. Is there something special about this 7304 that I am missing? 4. Is the 7304 ok with IPv6 and IPv6 BGP? 5. Is this a good choice for a customer router? Thoughts and comments are appreciated. Ralph _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
