[nsp] Gigabit/Fibre LAN - Required Network Elements

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:18:52AM +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> As I'd mentioned earlier, we are ordering 3550 Cisco Catalyst switches and
> 3725 Cisco routers.

If you feed 1 Gbps into a 3725, it will fall over and play dead.  

This is *way* off spec for this router type.

gert
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