[c-nsp] Cisco 7301 and PA-2FE-TX

[Rodney Dunn]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:48:58AM -0500, Robert E.Seastrom wrote:
> 
> "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi at 4ever.de> writes:
> 
> > Re Steve,
> >
> > steve.wright at visp.me.uk (Steve Wright) wrote:
> >
> >> I'm struggling to get a PA-2FE-TX/PA-2FEISL-TX working in a Cisco 7301. This
> >> is supposedly supported, and I currently have the case open with TAC, but
> >> just wanted to know if anyone else had managed to get this working in a
> >> 7301?
> >
> > Non-ISL-cards work like a charm. I have eight boxes in the field that
> > carry traffic on them. I remember hearing that the -ISL cards wouldn't
> > do, though.
> 
> As Elmar notes, the PA-2FE-TX and the PA-2FEISL-TX are completely
> different beasts.  Before you sign up to use a FEISL card, you should
> acquaint yourself with all the lore that goes along with them and be
> sure that you really want to go there.  Out of consideration for the
> helpful folks on this list who work for Cisco, we tend to not talk
> about those cards much.  :)

:) I do appreciate it. But the more you talk bad about a card
that was marketed and deployed wrong because we didn't have a real
dual FE port PA ready the better IMO. That way more people get the
truth and don't take it as the usual "Cisco just wants me to buy
new hardware just because" idea that IMO is too over referenced sometimes.


Rodney

> 
> Personally, I chased 'em out of my network in any application where
> they're going to be asked to move more than 50 mbit aggregate across
> both ports, which admittedly was a little more extreme than I needed
> to be, but I'm better off for it and mission creep on attached hosts
> doesn't cause me pain.
> 
>                                         ---rob
> 
> 
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