How many BGP routes can the WS-SUP720-BASE engine handle?

[kevin_spies]

I have looked everywhere for a couple of days but I cannot find the answer

to the above question. I see the specs for the WS-SUP720-3B and 3BXL

but not the WS-SUP720-BASE with the MSFC3 and PFC3A daughter cards.

The 3B can handle 256,000 routes using IPv4 and the 3BXL can do 1,000,000.

Thanks!

[Matthew Blanshard · Accepted solution]

Sup720-base can handle the same as the 3B, so 256k (239k unicast since the rest are reserved for multicast).

-Matt

[kevin_spies]

How is the 3B better than the SUP720-BASE? I wish there was a spec sheet to compare the BASE and 3B like there is for the 3B and 3BL and 3BXL.

Thanks for the help.

[Matthew Blanshard · Accepted solution]

The reason the spec sheet is gone is because the SUP720-BASE has been end of life'd already.  3B supports things in hardware like MPLS and a few other features that the PFC3A does not support.  MPLS hardware support is the big one that is supported on the 3B versus the 3A.

-Matt

[kevin_spies]

Thank you Matt!