[nsp] FE on 7200

[Christopher J. Wolff]

Hello,

More importantly what happens if you exceed bandwidth points?  It sounds
like it would be more sense to get a NPE with a GBIC port and do 802.1Q/ISL
trunking to a 3550 type switch.  With no other linecards on the box and
24-48 100 meg ports you've got to be on top of the performance curve.

What would Juniper do? :)

Regards,
Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO
Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
http://www.bblabs.com

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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:24 PM
To: 'Gert Doering'; 'Krzysztof Adamski'
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: SV: [nsp] FE on 7200

Hello!

Won't 2*PA-2FE-TX give you trouble with "bandwidth points", on all NPEs,
except NPE-G1 ?

It is my understanding that you have 600 bandwidth points on each of the two
buses, and that the FEs on the I/O controller on all NPEs except NPE-G1
count (Left bus, I/O + slot 1,3,5; Right bus: 2,4,6).
NPE-400 means 400 bandwidth points, as do PA-2FE-TX, leaving no points
available for a second FA-2FE-TX ?

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/modules/ps2033/products_confi
guration_guide_chapter09186a008014cf5c.html

In fact, we are looking for a router platform (not switch; 6500/7600) that
have "many" (5-10) FEs, which can do 802.1q.  Overlapping VLAN IDs are an
issue, therefore placing a switch in front of the router FE port is not an
option.

Jan G. Hope


> The PA-2FE-TX is a very nice one.  But it's a single point of failure
> (if the PA breaks, both FEs are dead), so if you have enough slots, go for
> 2x PA-FE...

> gert

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