> Thanks Steinar. I've also found out that the PICs will support number > from 1-4093, so that is one less concern to worry about. The bundle I'm > looking at is an M7i with "5 GE ports" so I've assumed that it's really > 4 PICs and one built-in GE for management purposes.
Probably *not* one built-in GE for management purposes - the M7i has a separate 10/100 management port at the right hand side of the chassis. This port can *not* participate in normal packet forwarding, while the built-in GE (on the left hand side of the chassis) will forward at line rate. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp