Re: options for full routing table in 1 year?

[Stephane Tsacas <stephane.tsacas () gmail com>]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 17:17, Jo Rhett <jrhett () netconsonance com> wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Tim Durack wrote:
>
> > Cisco 6500/7600 you replace SUP32 or SUP720 with SUP720-3BXL
> > >       ...if I understand it, no other cards need replaced?
> > >       (note that this disagrees with my understanding of how their
> > > FIB/CEF
> > > works so I'm curious about this)
> >
> > If you have linecard DFCs they would need to be XLs also.
>
>
> The DFCs are what make hardware forwarding possible, yeah?


On the line card.


> Upgrading the DFC requires a line-card swap, or just a DFC daughter-card?

You remove the standard CFC daughter card and put the DFC instead.



-- 
Stephane
Paris, France.