Cisco Vip Cards.

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I just have a quick qustion.
    I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations
accross the United states. I spoke with some friends I have at cisco in
referance to known related problems with the VIP cards (according to
cisco there were close to non) but I am interested in some input from
people who are already using VIP cards on 7513's.

Thanks,
Rob

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Robert,

We run VIP2-40s in amost all of our routers. If you are going to be
pushing a lot of traffic, buy them. The best thing about them is that
they support distributed switching. It dropped the CPU load on our
routers by 40%.

Mark

Robert Davila wrote:

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I just have a quick qustion.
    I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations
accross the United states. I spoke with some friends I have at cisco in
referance to known related problems with the VIP cards (according to
cisco there were close to non) but I am interested in some input from
people who are already using VIP cards on 7513's.

Thanks,
Rob

We have VIP2-40s running all over our network
with various port adapters (OC3, 8port serial etc)
and have had no problem besides flakiness when
we first implemented them. Everything is working
well now.

brad reynolds
ber@cwru.edu
brad@iagnet.net

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^^^^^^
Blasting in from the future.

    I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations

Since you say "several", there's one amusing (or not, as the case may
be) gotcha, which is that interface cards are reset and initialized
sequentially. For normal cards this is no big deal, but for VIPs the
process is considerably more involved and time-consuming -- the VIP is
a stand-alone system with it's own special IOS image, and it takes 2-3
minutes to boot. Hence, expect a 7513 fully loaded with VIPs to spend
half an hour booting before it starts doing anything useful. Cisco is
apparently working on parallel booting, but AFAIK it isn't there yet.