Yep.
>Cisco rep that it did that...though I can't really imagine having several
>5300's. You'd need ear protection to walk into the network room.
Ok. Cisco at first need a concentrator - like a 7200 - that handled
MCMP for the stack.
Users, understandable, balked at this. I mean, WHY? Ascend does it,
Lucent does it, even 3Com kind of does it (I still think MPIP is weak - and
their proposed solution is to release a UNIX MPIP server to offload the TCs!).
So they developed MCMP to be done within the stack of 5200/5300/5800 chassis
alone.
However, they still encourage (read PUSH) the router based solution as being
a more efficient, more capable, etc, solution.
IMHO it sounds more like an excuse, or an attempt to sell more high margin
routers.
-MZ
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