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GRF's also take about 5-10 minutes to reboot, which can be annoying. Nathan Stratton President, CTO, NetRail,Inc.

My 7206s reboot in well under a minute (the -p- builds fit right into bootflash, so no need for a boot-then-think-then-load-flash-then-think cycle).

Once up, they transfer full routes bidirectionally with 7505s in 10-15 seconds. Avi

Our BFR:s (cisco 12000) reboots in less than a minute and if it's a box reload the outage is short enough so that downstream IBGP speakers maintain their BGP sessions that are routed through the reloaded box. --Peter