[c-nsp] PA-POS-2OC3

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:43:21AM -0500, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> And if at some point in the future you upgrade and
> the setup stops working because modules are powered
> down automatically don't be suprised.  

No, I wouldn't be overly surprised - I would be highly pissed.

There are scenarios when you know very well that you'll never use up the
available bandwidth, but also know that you can't do it with another
combination of PAs (due to physical constraints, for example - customer
wants 20 Mbit, but you can't use E3, so you use PA-FE).

Printing a warning here is perfectly fine - it's the "don't proceed
unless you know what you're doing".

Forcing the customer to buy a larger router so that "you can guarantee
all bandwidth on all ports" is likely going to force him to $VENDOR_J - 
a Cisco 7200 isn't going to provide wire-speed on all ports *anyway*,
but provides much more flexibility than a M5 or M7i.  Take away the
flexibility...

gert
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