Hi all, > Am 10.07.2018 um 18:05 schrieb Charles Spurgeon > <[email protected]>: > If you want 5 years of active support then you should probably > consider the Catalyst 9000 series (NOT Nexus 9k and thanks for the > model number confusion, Cisco). If you want multiple sups and slots > then the Cat9400 would be the model of interest. However, note that > the Cat9500 supports "stackwise virtual" which claims to be a VSS > replacement.
we, too, are still looking for an affordable replacement for our Cat6k switches. While the 9k series looks interesting for data centre switching, I fear they won't do BGP with the global routing table? https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-9500-series-switches/data_sheet-c78-738978.html Total number of IPv4 routes (Address Resolution Protocol [ARP] plus learned routes) Up to 212,000 indirect + direct* Up to 90,000 host/ARP* If this is indeed the number of routes the system can hold, that won't do. I wonder where those 16 GB of DRAM go with a measly 200k prefixes ... Or am I missing something? Since our Cat6k are not limited by switching performance but simply by the size of the routing table, we are looking into data centre switches for layer2/3 that hopefully consume less power and into Quagga or similar solutions for external connectivity. With 300 Mbit/s aggregate external traffic an amd64 based server should easily handle that. Kind regards Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH Internet - Dienstleistungen - Beratung Kaiserallee 13a Tel.: 0721 9109-0 Fax: -100 76133 Karlsruhe [email protected] http://punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Gf: Juergen Egeling _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
