* Justin Shore
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
* Adrian Chadd
Hands up those of you running Cat6500's in service provider environments.
*hand* Actually, not quite yet, but I'm considering purchasing a pair of Cat6500's (with Sup720 PFC3CXL) for a new colo I'm setting up, bundling them together with VSS. They'll terminate a few transit links and links to other colos, in addition to functioning as distribution/access switches for the data center itself. Are you saying that there's something about the Cat6500's that makes them unsuitable for such usage? I'd sure like to hear more about that before I go ahead and buy them, if so. Up until now I've been using whiteboxes with Linux and Quagga for the layer 3 services. This setup has served us well, but it seems we're starting to approach a performance limit at around 1 Gbps routed traffic so we need new gear anyway - a good time to start doing routing in hardware, I thought. Regards -- Tore Anderson