[nsp] C7200 Bandwidth Points

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 10:36:06AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> > subtleties too such as if u use a multiport adaptor eg PA-2FE you can load them 
> > higher by switching between the two ports as your not using the backplane!
> 
> You're sure of that?  As the 7200 is a centralized architecture, I'd
> assume that everything has to go to the CPU and back...

no not really! but i did some load testing and managed to get a significantly 
higher throughput once the bus was loaded by adding traffic in and out of the 
ports on the same PA

there could be other explanations, something to do with the limit of the PA-2FE 
rather than the bus.. 

Steve

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> gert
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