RE: [nsp] GSR Engine 1/2/3/4? huh?

From: Clinton Work (Clinton.Work@telus.com)
Date: Thu Jan 31 2002 - 15:51:39 EST


Engine 0/1 - Think 7500 VIP technology, software IP forwarding
Engine 2-4 - Highspeed forwarding ASICs with adjustable microcode for line
rate forwarding.
Engine 3-4+ - Offer higher speeds then Engine 2 cards and more ASIC support
for advanced features (MPLS, CAR, ..)

Feature support (Sampled Netflow, MPLS, ACLs, CAR, ...):

Engine 0/1 - Features supplied by software so they can be used at the same
time, but throughput suffers as features are added.
Engine 2 - Cisco creates multiple microcode sets that only support several
features at the same time. Right now you
  can't do CAR and sampled-netflow on the same Engine 2 card.
Engine 3/4/4+ - The cards have more ASIC support to perform multiple
features at the same time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
Sent: 31 January, 2002 11:41 AM
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] GSR Engine 1/2/3/4? huh?

Hi,

is there a document that explains the difference between "engine 1",
"engine 2", ..., "engine 4" line cards for the GSR?

Is there a simple way to say "this one is better than that one", like
"the higher the number, the better the card"?

gert

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