[c-nsp] 7206 12.2(18) Maximum # of MLPPP T1s on PA-MC-T3

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Thu Aug 21 09:36:12 EDT 2008


It will take it but the reordering overhead will be huge with that
many members.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:49:53PM -0700, Brandon Price wrote:
> Just for the heck of it I Bundled all 28 once in a lab with a NPE400 on
> one end and a NPE300 on the other..
> 
> I was able to pull about 40mbps or so across the link.. if memory serves
> me correct the cpus spiked pretty high.. above 90% I think... I didn't
> do a whole lot of testing but it definitely took all 28 members...
> 
> 
> Brandon
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Lacey
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:51 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] 7206 12.2(18) Maximum # of MLPPP T1s on PA-MC-T3
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> cisco 7206VXR (NPE300) processor (revision B) with 229376K/65536K bytes 
> of memory.
> R7000 CPU at 262Mhz, Implementation 39, Rev 1.0, 256KB L2 Cache
> 6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.0
> 
> I found that the PA-MC-T3 card will handle 12 T1 links in one MLPPP 
> group and still use HW.
> After 12, the 7206 will go into SW mode for the MLPPP bundle.
> 
> How many T1s can I use, albeit  in SW mode, can  I bundle together?
> 
> I know I can bundle across PA-MC-T3, again in SW mode, but how many 
> total T1s can I bundle across two PA-MC-T3 cards?
> 
> How about where I will run into performance issues?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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