AFAIK VPLS is not supported on the Catalyst 6500 series. You should upgrade to the 7600 series with enhanced core facing interfaces, such as ES-cards or SIP-400/600 cards.
Regards, Masood > Thanks Arie. But ES cards are not supported on Cat6500, no? And also VPLS > over MPLS on a SIP in Cat6500 - is it supported? If so do you know which > SIP?Thanks, > Marlon > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Arie Vayner (avayner) > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Marlon, >> >> If you have DFCs on the regular LAN cards, then EoMPLS and L3VPN will be >> done in hardware and in distributed forwarding mode. >> For VPLS, you need to have either an ES20/ES40 card or a SIP card facing >> the core. Having this card means that again VPLS is done in hardware - >> some functionality is done on the regular DFCs and some on the egress >> core facing module. >> >> Arie >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marlon Duksa >> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 02:07 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [c-nsp] MPLS/IP-VPN capable cards on Cat 6500 >> >> Hi -Does anyone know which cards on Cat6500 support MPLS >> and separately IP-VPN, posibly at 40Gbps throughput? I'm looking for a >> distributed (DFC) forwarding solution? >> >> I know that Cat6500 is very limited in VPLS support, but IP-VPN and >> EoMPLS >> should be no problem, right? >> >> Thanks, >> Marlon >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
