[nsp] Gigabit/Fibre LAN - Required Network Elements

[Deepak Jain]

Gert Doering wrote:

> 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.
> 


Its not supposed to fall over and play dead. My experience however, is 
that the 37xx will drop packets like crazy if you try to route that much 
traffic. Those who are just switching have no problems, I hear.

Deepak Jain
AiNET