Cisco Vip Cards.

Mark Tripod mark at elvis.exodus.net
Mon Dec 8 21:55:27 UTC 1997


Robert,

We run VIP2-40s in amost all of our routers. If you are going to be
pushing a lot of traffic, buy them. The best thing about them is that
they support distributed switching. It dropped the CPU load on our
routers by 40%.

Mark

Robert Davila wrote:
> 
> I just have a quick qustion.
>     I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
> VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations
> accross the United states.  I spoke with some friends I have at cisco in
> referance to known related problems with the VIP cards (according to
> cisco there were close to non) but I am interested in some input from
> people who are already using VIP cards on 7513's.
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob



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