On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Alex Thurlow wrote:
2. Buy a Cisco/Juniper/whatever and then have the Quagga box as backup.
3. I have a 6500 behind the router that's just doing switching. Could I have
something switch that to static route all traffic to one of my providers if
something happened to the router? The 6500 has Sup1A with MSFC2 running IOS
native.
On the Cisco side, I see that we could probably run a 7200VXR with NPE-G1
(about $6000 on ebay). Moving to the Sup720, even used is probably out of
our price range.
If you were to upgrade the 6500 to a Sup720-3bxl or better, it would be a
far superior platform for handling multiple gigabit ethernet circuits and
full BGP than the NPE-G1. Sadly, the sup720 and required power supply and
fan card upgrades would cost more than that 7200/NPE-G1, but it'll route
considerably more traffic. I don't think you're going to get line-rate
GigE from the G1. You will with the 6500.
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