[c-nsp] Cat 6500 and counters

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 2005-04-27, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> What about the interface counters?  Will the boxes count packets and
> bytes on the hardware interface (FastEthernet X/Y) and on the SVIs
> (Vlan XYZ) properly?  Or is it limited like the 3750G that will only
> count packets sent or received from the router CPU, but no packets
> forwarded in hardware (at least on the SVIs)?   What about subinterfaces
> on OSM GE ports (in case I want some)?

The only place I've seen our Sup720s miscounting was egress on a SVI
when traffic was pushed there with policy-based routing. We don't need
accounting though and we don't do Netflow, so I can't give you thumbs-up
in general.

Bernhard