We use the 7600 platform as a Customer Border device. It attaches directly to our core, and directly to our customers. This has been a solid platform. Before this we used to use the 7600 as a load balancer for a DNS cluster. Worked fairly well. We use the 6500 series for our main network infrastructure and to border/core/dist layers and they are rock solid, as long as you stay away from the SXH images. These are a bit buggy and we have had routers crash due to that image. We have deployed a few new devices with the SXI and are very happy with them currently.
Jim Wininger wrote: > I have an opportuniy to put two 7609s into the core of my network. > > Currently we have 3 upstream providers, taking full BGP routes. (2 in one > router and one in another). We have 17 BGP peers/customers (peering to each > router), and adding about one new BGP peer every 2-3 months. It is a modest > network by most standards. We are running OSPF and BGP between the existing > routers. > > Not rocket science, nothing special (no MPLS, no VRF etc), very simple > network. > > Does anyone have any recommendations on the 7600's as a core BGP router? > Good or bad? Have they been a stable platform in a core/BGP environment? > -- Steve King Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc. Cisco Certified Network Associate CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional CompTIA A+ Certified Professional
