[nsp] Gigabit/Fibre LAN - Required Network Elements

[Colin Whittaker]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:18:52AM +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
> cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:22:40PM -0500, Church, Chuck wrote:
> >> I haven't checked in a year or so, but last I knew, no server could
> >> come close to saturating a gig link.
> > 
> > Reaching a Gig traffic levels from a single server isn't that hard.
> > Our ftp server can reach that with only 2 or 3 client requests. In
> > production the clients usually have smaller bandwidth so less likely
> > to hit the Gige but we are up to 400+ Megs with a doubling period of
> > under a year.    
> > 
> > Colin
> 
> Hi Colin.
> 
> Could I ask your implementation for the Gig-E network, with respect mostly
> to your switching and routing interfaces? I'd like to know how I could get
> up to 1Gbps from server to switch to router, while keeping other users
> operating at the normal 100Mbps LAN bandwidth. 

Server plugs into a Cat4000 switch with a Sup III which is the gateway
fro the vlan. The 4k is linked via 2 x 1GE etherchannel to a Cisco 7600
which in turn uplinks to a 12k

Colin
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