I believe the commands are there because it's supported on some hardware. I don't even think MPLS will work at all on the Sup720 Base, not even in software.
Here is a Cisco Support Forums post that talks about this a bit as well. https://cisco-support.hosted.jivesoftware.com/thread/250395 On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Pete Templin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/12/10 11:19 AM, Pete Lumbis wrote: >> >> I'm pretty sure that MPLS is only supported on the 3B or higher >> without a OSM or FlexWAN card. > > I understood that (meaning, "supported") going into the project. However, > the command in question exists to enable MPLS support on said older > hardware. This suggests that, although suboptimal or perhaps strictly in > software, the PFC3A can do MPLS and could tide this customer over until > they're ready/able to do a forklift upgrade (which I'd guess is either three > years from now, given the cyclic limits from their main funding source, or > only if MPLS can solve an otherwise unsolvable problem). > > pt > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
