[rescue] Looking for Cisco 7000 FEIPs
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 15:36:57 CDT 2007
Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> RP+SSP I think, but I haven't looked closely at all of the 7000s yet.
>> All I want (right now) is something that'll let me connect FDDI and ATM
>> nets to my ethernet network, and work better than (read: at all) when I
>> tried to shove a DEFPA in a Linux box and use it as router. I never
>> figured I'd see a K7 box with that high of CPU load, only routing the
>> small number of packets that actually got through.
>>
> FWIW, i use a catalyst 5000 with a FDDI card and an Ethernet card at
> home, and it works well for me. Unfortunately, the catalyst 5000 can't
> do 1000baseT AFAIK.
It can, but it can't push the entire bandwidth. I think you need the
extra backplane capacity of a 5500 for that.
Peace... Sridhar
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