Richard A Steenbergen writes: > You think so? Sup32 is little more than a rebadged sup2/msfc2 (sorry > thats msfc2*a*, its completely different after you add that "a") > with some optional onboard interfaces (aka the only way you'll ever > do 10GE on the thing). In exchange, it gets a hearty crippling (at > least sup2 you can add a fabric card). Other than supporting newer > IOS going forward (aka Cisco forcing people to pay again), Sup32 has > very little going for it.
What it does have is a PFC3B. This means hardware forwarding for IPv6 and MPLS, including encapsulation and decapsulation for IPv6 in IPv4 and Ethernet in MPLS (EoMPLS), and hardware rate-limiting of packets punted to the MSFC (CoPP). -- Simon.
