[c-nsp] WS6548 pericles with port/ether-channels

[Moerman, Maarten]

Sorry for my outlook not correctly quoting (Quotefix doesn't work for
some reason)

However, the 6548 has a 32gbit shared bus. My thoughts where that it
should be possible to have 2 * 8gb and 1 * 2gb running on that.

On the 6148's I do not have problems, as I'll be using them only for
connecting normal 1gbit ports, without much traffic on it.

I just found out that the 6748's are only about 1k more then the 6548's,
so it shouldn't be a big problem, however, I find the cisco not very
clear on this.

Maarten

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Hargrave [mailto:will at harg.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:55 AM
To: Moerman, Maarten
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] WS6548 pericles with port/ether-channels

Moerman, Maarten wrote:

> I just bought these freakin expensive WS6548GE-TX boards, in order to
> correctly implement portchannels ,and get rid of the 1gb limit the
> 6148's have. As been told by the cisco site, the cisco site also
> mentioned that the 6548's do not have ratelimit problems. So I'm
> implementing those.... 

1gb limit on 6148? it has a classic bus (32gbit) connection. What
problems have you been having with these?

> I needed to have 2 port channels of 8gb and one of 2gb. Is this
possible
> in my configuration? I have 7604's with Sup730-3BXL, no money spared
on
> those. And now I've found out that after the cisco site giving me
wrong
> information, I can't get this fixed. 

6548 is a CEF256 card.. they have a single 8Gbps fabric and a 32Gbps
shared 'classic' bus connection.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/modules/ps4835/products_data_shee
t0900aecd8017376e.html

Not what you wanted to hear, but you should have really bought
WS-X6748-GE-TX. 67xx cards have CEF720 fabric connections (2x20G) which
means they operate optimally with SUP720.

Will