[c-nsp] NPE-400 vs. NPE-G1

[Hank Nussbacher]

On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-2] £ukasz Bromirski wrote:

> Aly, Yasser wrote:
>
> >   Regarding using 6724 and a DFC, what would be the limitations using
> > 6724 without DFC?
>
> DFC is basically PFC on board a linecard, which means all decisions
> regarding the packet (filtering, QoS, routing) are done in distributed
> fashion vs centralized if You don't have DFC on the card (and the
> PFC onboard a Sup is doing all the work).

We have a WS-X6748-GE-TX with WS-F6700-DFC3BXL (of course on a SUP720
with WS-F6K-PFC3BXL running 12.2(18)SXE4).  We took one GE port and
defined the following on that one GE port:

policy-map IIX-OUT
  class class-default
   police cir 400000000 bc 12500000 pir 500000000 be 15625000
conform-action transmit exceed-action drop violate-action drop

Look at the attached graphs of test traffic and CPU of the SUP720.  So the
word "distributed" isn't exactly accurate :-)

-Hank