[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Streiner, Justin]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Chris Parker wrote:

> At 02:30 PM 7/11/2003 -0400, Temkin, David wrote:
> >'nother question.  I understand how bandwidth points work on the 7200
> >series, however, if I'm building a system and I know that I won't be using
> >interfaces to their full potential (ie, there's an extra FE or DS-3
> >interface in it) and it exceeds the maximum amount of points per the NPE,
> >will the system run correctly or will it error?
>
> The router will complain, and I think TAC won't support it very well
> if that is the case, but it will not in my experience shut down any
> interfaces or refuse to run.
>
> It basically tells you that you're oversubscribing the bus, and can
> have problems, but as you note, if you aren't pushing near the full
> capacity, you probably won't overuse the bus.

This should be similar to the error that a non-VXR 7200 will spit out when
you put too many "high bandwidth cards" in a chassis.  The router will
complain, but continue to function.

jms