[c-nsp] 6500/7600 "reserved" power for secondary sups

Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists Lists at Hojmark.ORG
Fri Mar 3 16:57:49 EST 2006


>> Under slot 6, the system is reserving power for 328.44 watts 
>> (the same as the primary sup720-3bxl), but there is no card
>> in slot 6, nor has there ever been.

> This is by design. We need to be able to handle the case of
> plugging in a redundant supervisor and having it power up.

Why do you need to be able to handle that? Why any more so than,
say, a SIP-600 with 5 GE ports? You might as well reserve 300W
for all of the cards because someone might put a 6704 in them?

-A



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