> The Cisco 7600 and 6500 platforms are getting fairly old and have > underpowered cpus these days.
the hamsters in them were never well fed, ever. though i have never run one, too yucchhy, i have measured receiving a research feed from one. over ten minutes for a full table while a router takes two. some researcher into archeology might try to measure if is just a sick tcp or if it is closer to rib-out. randy