[c-nsp] Is the 6704 really as terrible as everyone says?

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Thu Dec 2 16:24:27 EST 2010


On 02/12/2010 20:00, Charles Spurgeon wrote:
> We used to think that the newer 6716 card had better buffers until we
> found this Cisco whitepaper that states that the receive buffer in
> transparent mode on the 6716 ports is 950KB vs the 2MB buffer on the
> 6704:

Isn't that the other way around?  I.e. the 6716 has 109Mb input buffers per 
port in transparent mode and 950k input buffers per port in 
oversubscription mode.  This is my reading of the URL you posted.

Nick


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