RE: [nsp] Intergrated routing/bridging

From: Siva Valliappan (svalliap@cisco.com)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 15:25:23 EDT


IRB is not PXF accelerated. you might
want to see if you can use RBE. RBE gives equivalent functionality
as IRB for ATM PVCs. RBE is accelerated in the PXF path in 12.2()BB.

cheers
.siva

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Ryan OConnell wrote:

>
> On 24-Apr-2002 Vladimir Litovka wrote:
> > Thank you, it works. Two more questions -
> >
> > 1) 'show running-config' doesn't show this command. I.e. I see
> >
> > bridge 1 protocol ieee
> > bridge 1 route ip
> >
> > and there isn't "bridge 1 bridge ip". Will this command have effect
> > after reload?
>
> The bridge ip command is implied as it's the default behaviour, but sometimes
> the router gets stuck with "no bridge 1 bridge ip" but doesn't show it in a show
> run.
>
> > 2) Although BVI looks supported by CEF, CPU on my NSE-1 (without PXF) have
> > 100% load. Are there ways to reduce this value?
>
> Not really - the CPU is having to process every packet it sees on the Ethernet
> in order to build the bridging table. NAT may be a better solution to your
> problem if that's possible. (Static NAT from the old IP to a new one. I think
> the router will proxy-ARP for the NATed address by default.)
>
> --
> Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
> ryan@complicity.co.uk
> http://www.complicity.co.uk/
>



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