[c-nsp] PA-POS-2OC3

[Dave Temkin]

I've only gotten that response when they've been stumped as to the problem
before.  Summary of cases where they've told me "You've got too many b/w
points":

1) PA-GE won't pass traffic outbound but sees inbound traffic.  Replaced
the card, GBIC, etc.
	Ended up being a bad slot on a 7206 chassis.

2) Encryption not being accelerated by SA-VAM2
	Software bug

3) Other miscellaneous BS.


Both of those were on lightly loaded routers.

Basically, they don't know exactly what to expect when you oversubscribe
the b/w, but my experience has been no problems.

-Dave

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:00:59PM +0200, Yasser Aly wrote:
> >  I have a question here. If the total bandwidth points/bus exceeded the
> > maximum. Will all the cards work - but with degraded performance -, or the
> > card that needs extra resources than the bus can provide will not be
> > detected from the beginning?
>
> The router will warn you at bootup, but will use the cards normally.  If
> one of the interface has very little traffic, you might not even see a
> performance degradation.  If all interfaces try to run at line speed,
> things will suffer, of course...
>
> OTOH, if you contact TAC with a problem on this router, they might tell
> you "this is an unsupported configuration, go away"...
>
> gert
>