> We have some 7201's in the edge that could have been changed > to ASR1001's, but this 512,000 FIB entry limitation is a > real PITA.
Can you provide a source for this information please? To my knowledge this is not true as the 1001 has the Intel RP1.5... McDonald On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:46:27 PM Matt Moor wrote: > > > To my eye, the ASR1001 looks like a better option now > > that it's available - it's an intel based platform (ala > > RP2), albeit less powerful (Core Duo vs Xeon), with > > something like the equivalent of an ESP5 inside it. > > Talking to a few Cisco folk about it seriously (a few > > months ago) more or less confirmed this. The 1002F > > apparently had some market pressure driving it to > > availability before RP2 was ready to go, and the 1001 > > very much "feels" like an RP2 version of it (for those > > of us in the Ethernet world, anyhoo). > > > > I left the company before we ended up deploying some, but > > the due diligence had born out to that point. > > Agree that the ASR1001 is certainly excellent on paper. We > run 7201's as route reflectors here since 2008, and we're > very happy that we're considering the ASR1001's as a > potential replacement. It's just that the ASR1001 will only > install 512,000 entries into the FIB, and we're not yet sure > what a control-plane only router (route reflector role) will > do when we exceed this maximum. In theory, there shouldn't > be any issue since decisions are made in the RIB first. > > We have some 7201's in the edge that could have been changed > to ASR1001's, but this 512,000 FIB entry limitation is a > real PITA. > > The ASR1001 is on the right track, now we just need Cisco to > fix that FIB issue, although something tells me they won't > for fear of displacing the larger boxes in this series. > > Cheers, > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
