From: Oliver Ziltener (ziltener@netcloud.ch)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 13:18:07 GMT-3
BGP Border Router? OSPF Border Router?
General:
It is not a question of cpu power, it is more a question of archithektur,
memory, code, asics and cpu.
From the view of pps you should take msfc2, but whats about number of ports,
interfaces, features,
and dollars?
Note here are some values:
NPE-400 has about 400'000 pps
NPE-G1 has about 1'000'000 pps
MSFC2 has about 15'000'000 or 30'000'000 pps (no DFC)
All will do it with CEF!
regards
Oliver
-----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Weidong Xiao [mailto:Weidong.Xiao@vi.net]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. April 2003 16:23
An: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Betreff: OT: 6509 or 7200, which is better for border router?
Hello,
I'm in a process of designing a data centre. I got several 7200vxr and 6509
at my disposal.
1. What kind of cpu is 7200 running? NPE400 or R7000?
2. If both 6509 and 7200vxr are running R7000 CPU, then 7200vxr seems better
from an old-fashioned router point of view (because it's running at 350Mhz,
while 6509 is at 300Mhz). But 6509's RP is actually a 7600 router, how can it
be slower than 7200?
3. From CCO, I got:
NPE-400 - performance up to 400 Kpps ---------for 7200
Service Performance 6 Mpps--------------for 7600
Does this mean 6509 is 1500 times faster that 7200 when they are doing packet
switching?
4. 6509's strongest point is MLS, is this feature important in a border
router? 6509 or 7200, which is better for a border router's role?
Many thanks,
Weidong
------- SOME DETAIL:
cisco 7204VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K bytes of
memory.
R7000 CPU at 350Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.2, 256KB L2, 4096KB L3 Cache
cisco 7206VXR (NPE400) processor (revision A) with 245760K/16384K bytes of
memory.
R7000 CPU at 350Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 3.2, 256KB L2, 4096KB L3 Cache
cisco Catalyst 6000 (R7000) processor with 227328K/34816K bytes of memory.
R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
cisco Cat6k-MSFC2 (R7000) processor with 229376K/32768K bytes of memory.
R7000 CPU at 300Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 2.1, 256KB L2, 1024KB L3 Cache
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