Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

["Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom () unitedlayer com>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote:
> > Buying GSR's is probably the right replacement for 7500's if you want to
> > stick with Cisco.
>
> But be careful when buying the linecards.  Not all of them have
> comparable forwarding performance to the 7500 if you do something else
> than mere IP packet fowarding (e.g. ACLs or policy-based routing).

Given that a GEIP in a 7500 can only do 200-300Mbps (packet load
dependant), I hope the GSR can do better :)

I have heard of instances where enabling inbound packet filtering or
shaping on certain GigE cards would cause the cards to shutdown or reboot.

I generally don't do shaping/etc on core gear, because its much easier to
do it on my aggregation gear (2948G-L3/4908G-L3).