We use the 7600 platform as a Customer Border device. It attaches directly to our core, and directly to our customers. This has been a solid platform. Before this we used to use the 7600 as a load balancer for a DNS cluster. Worked fairly well. We use the 6500 series for our main network infrastructure and to border/core/dist layers and they are rock solid, as long as you stay away from the SXH images. These are a bit buggy and we have had routers crash due to that image. We have deployed a few new devices with the SXI and are very happy with them currently. Jim Wininger wrote:
I have an opportuniy to put two 7609s into the core of my network.
Currently we have 3 upstream providers, taking full BGP routes. (2 in one router and one in another). We have 17 BGP peers/customers (peering to each router), and adding about one new BGP peer every 2-3 months. It is a modest network by most standards. We are running OSPF and BGP between the existing routers.
Not rocket science, nothing special (no MPLS, no VRF etc), very simple network.
Does anyone have any recommendations on the 7600's as a core BGP router? Good or bad? Have they been a stable platform in a core/BGP environment?
-- Steve King Network Engineer - Liquid Web, Inc. Cisco Certified Network Associate CompTIA Linux+ Certified Professional CompTIA A+ Certified Professional