Re: [nsp] Oversubscribed 7206VXR backplane with PA-GEs ?

From: Ramin K (mr_list@netzero.net)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 02:40:06 EST


Having done something similar (an OC-3, DS-3, and three 2 port FE cards)
it will boot and complain about "maximum bandwidth points of 600 being
exceed", but shouldn't actually fail to work. Unless you plan to push more
then 250ish Mb/s through it. :-)

Ramin

At 11:14 AM 11/17/00 -0500, Lyndon Levesley wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>[ I am aware that this is an "unsupported configuration" and that it
>will decidedly oversubscribe the backplane(s) but... ]
>
>...has anyone had any experience of whether or not I can plug 4 PA-GE
>cards into a single 7206 (VXR, 300) and have the router actually work
>? I am not concerned about the suboptimal performance but am
>concerned that it will actually work (and what may happen to the
>pther PAs if, e.g., one port gets hammered for a while) and what
>potentially nasty issues doing this may raise etc.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>L.
>
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