[c-nsp] Load balancing

Steve Francis sfrancis at fastclick.com
Wed Dec 29 03:39:20 EST 2004


What load are you running (connections/second) and what is the reported 
CPU usage of the CSM?

Arie Vayner wrote:

>We are using stateless failover and it is ok...
>The only major point is that the 2 CSM's would not sync their config
>automatically, so you have to do it manually (it should be fixed in a
>future release)
>Also, there is a stateful mechanism, which just syncs up the state
>tables between the 2 CSM's
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>The whole mechanism is build around HSRP
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>Arie 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brant I. Stevens [mailto:branto at branto.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:17 PM
>To: Tantsura, Jeff; Arie Vayner; Michel Renfer;
>cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Load balancing
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>Out of curiosity, how is stateful failover (inter-chassis) handled on
>the CSM?
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>On 12/23/2004 09:06 AM, "Tantsura, Jeff" <jeff.tantsura at capgemini.com>
>wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I used CSM's on 65xx, work just fine, although there are some tricks, 
>>especially in combination with FW blade.
>>I've been using Alteon's since 2001, great switch but it's Nortel
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>now...
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>>not my favourite hardware vendor.
>>You could consider F5 as well.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Arie Vayner
>>Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:54 AM
>>To: Michel Renfer; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Load balancing
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>>We are using the CSM for some applications like tunnels, DNS and other
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>>things, and it works just great Arie
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net 
>>[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Michel Renfer
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:25 PM
>>To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>Subject: [c-nsp] Load balancing
>>
>>Hi All!
>>
>>We're currently looking at various load balancing solutions. Any 
>>comments/experiences regarding the Cisco CSS11500 series? Anyone using
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>>SLB on 72xx?
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>>cheers,
>>michel
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