The biggest operational issue that we've encountered is that having PE features enabled on your P routers makes your core vulnerable to quite a few more bugs. It's not necessarily a deal breaker but you do need to be aware of it. On Oct 18, 2011 2:55 PM, "Herro91" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Group, > > I'd like to get some feedback from the list as to potential downsides of > combining P and PE functionality into a single router. Besides the obvious > configuration concerns - i.e. changes being made on an edge box that is > also > a core, as well as additional heavy lifting for a P router - are there > other > items to be concerned about? > > This would be on high end distributed forwarding hardware (not the little > stuff). TE is definitely a possibility in addition to L2/L3VPNs/VPLS. > > Please let me know if you need additional info to make the right > conclusions. > > > Thanks in advance! > _______________________________________________ > 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/
