Re: PM3 multi-homing (was Re: (PM) BGP & multihoming)

Jake Messinger (jake@ams.com)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 09:49:07 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, NOT a LE employee wrote:

> Hmm, this begs the question, how many WAN cards can a PM3 take? More than
> 1? 2? 6?

Ive heard that the card itself is only 1 wan port and probably you can
only use 1 per chassis.
>
> And now further how does it handle doing say 3 T1 multihomes?

With BGP.

> If it can do this simply, I can see where it'd be a cost effective
> solution to implement... 8)

I dont think they are going to goto 4 on the PM 3. THe answer I got was
that the Pm 3 processor could not handle it. This is similar to the
problems that the early max's had when you tried to use 4 wan ports. We
had this problem and had to move the T1 to a separate router. We were
getting MUD traffic in peoples' html sessions.

> If it does do this will it require more than 32MB? Will there be a plug-in
> card for more memory?

You could just use higher density modules.
>
> Okay so I do NOT want to pay for a Cisco 4XXX/7XXX series if I can stay
> Lucent RABU... hehe, need a beta tester?

I think this is where the PM 4 comes in...

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