Then you move the cards into the "spare" chassis you have sitting 3ft away in another rack and boot up and go... :)
However, I have NEVER heard of a Cisco 12000 series "backplane" failing. EVER. Can't say that for an X86 based anything... they fail all the time... cards, system boards, processors, memory, power supplies, etc. Don't get me wrong here... we love Mikrotik running on our X86 systems.... we currently have 20 or 30 of them running the heart of our network... including one directly behind our Cisco 12008 that does all of our routing and deactivation stuff... and handles 450Mbps x 200Mbps on a daily basis... :) The point was, running RouterOS on a device taking multiple BGP feeds... which I would never do... Cisco still owns the BGP space... and my next choice would be Imagestream. Travis Microserv On 11/3/2010 8:45 PM, Butch Evans wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 19:53 -0600, Travis Johnson wrote: >> Having two routers talking to each other is not the same as a single >> router with redundant parts. I can pull the CPU card from my Cisco and >> the box never misses a single packet because the 2nd CPU card is in >> the same box. Same with the route processor cards. Same with the power >> supplies. >> >> If you have two boxes doing VRRP, and BGP, if the power supply goes >> out of a box, how long before the 2nd box could fully take over? 30 >> seconds? 60 seconds? :( > What if the backplane is the problem? > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
