[AusNOG] Cisco 6500 with Sup 720 3BXL - Good routing platform ??

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Lincoln Dale wrote:

> all vendors' boxes and indeed all platforms from cisco will have a variety of corner case behavior when you get into multi-thousand line ACLs matching on L3/L4 operations.

In the case of 6500/7600, a mere 10 lines of an improperly-constructed ACL can result in software switching on 6500/7600 interfaces to which said ACL is applied.  This is a bit extreme.

> but as you already know, improving CL-TCAM behaviour was something we worked hard on with EARL8.

Concur w/this 100%!

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