Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

Thu Nov 10 06:58:50 UTC 2005

> > A lot of people are deploying C76xx as peering routers ...
> 
> <rant>
> ... which should be prohibited by law. Actually, C76xx should be
> prohibited by law.
> </rant>

I've done my share of Cisco bashing in the past - but I have to say
that 6500/7600 worked pretty well as peering routers at my previous
employer. Great capacity, hardware forwarding, hardware ACLs and
policing. Handled Gbps sized DDoS attacks just fine.

6500/7600 as MPLS PE routers is another story altogether...

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no