Re: [nsp] Requesting comments on 7401 pricing

From: Brian (bri@sonicboom.org)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 20:21:52 EDT


Keep in mind if you do this, the ether in the controller share a bus with
slots 1, 3, anf 5. 2, 4, and 6 are on the other bus.

    Bri

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Fort" <afort@staff.webcentral.com.au>
To: "'Siva Valliappan'" <svalliap@cisco.com>
Cc: <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:14 PM
Subject: RE: [nsp] Requesting comments on 7401 pricing

> >it may be (if you are hitting the 30 kpps @ 320 megs) you are hitting
> >the limitation of the PA-GE. the PA-GE is a connectivity solution
> >and does not give you wire rate performance. the IO based GE
> >interfaces
> >and the GE interfaces on the 7400 can give you much higher performance.
>
> oh, so it's better to get the IO-controller GE than the PA-GE on a
7200VXR?
> "can" give you much higher performance? (can you give more detail about
the
> circumstances upon which you will see higher performance?)
>
> -afort
>



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