[c-nsp] Beyond 1 Gbps

[Jared Mauch]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:56:13AM -0400, Joe Loiacono wrote:
> We have a 6509 GigE link that is becoming saturated. The 6509 connects to 
> a Juniper M10 and there is a firewall between them. In this situation, a 
> migration to 10GigE looks too expensive.
> 
> So one would think EtherChannel. However, now both the firewall and the 
> Juniper have to be able to do EtherChannel (I've seen the recent 
> discussion on Fast Ether Channel vs. IEEE 802.3ad.)

	You can make the juniper do this, we've done this in the past
and have it all working with 65xx's <-> Juniper M & T series
doing 1ge and 10ge bundling.

	Only thing I don't know about is your firewall.

> Anyone have any experience in getting past 1GigE in a mixed environment 
> like this?
> 
> PS - this configuration is fully redundant (2 each: 6509s, f/ws, Junipers) 
> and the backup GigE is unused - could we somehow employ it? (The first 
> concern here though is asymmetric routing and stateful firewalls)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
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