[c-nsp] egress replication capability on CFCs?

[Tim Stevenson]

At 09:47 AM 10/10/2006 +0100, christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com commented:

>Right, now I remember, it was the lookups alone, not the actual replication.

Correct.

>Our recommendation from your learned selves so far has been to stick 
>away from egress replication in
>financial networks until it's a bit more mature, and hard code the 
>devices to ingress.

I wouldn't say that, I think egress is perfectly matured, but whether 
it has benefits in a non-DFC system depends on the # of lookups 
required, the replication load, the configuration (eg, distribution 
of interfaces), etc.

If you have low enough data rates, then ingress will work just fine, 
you just want to monitor your fabric channel utilization to make sure 
you aren't nearing capacity.

>How strong is egress replication looking these days? I imagine many 
>of the service provider psychos
>with their MVPNs might be running it? :P

Don't think so, since MVPN is only supported with ingress mode ;)

But for large bandwidth replications such as many video streams, yes, 
egress with "local" MET programming (mls ip multicast egress local) 
is a requirement to conserve replication engine & fabric channel bandwidth.

Thanks,
Tim






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>Christian,
>
>Strictly speaking, no, egress replication does NOT require DFC, it
>only requires a switch fabric & egress capable replication engines on
>the linecards (such as those on 67xx cards).
>
>The auto-detection is based only on card type, not whether there is a
>DFC present. It could be argued either way which is the better mode
>for CFC equipped cards, ingress or egress.
>
>With CFC, egress replication still gives you decreased fabric
>bandwidth consumption and distributed replication - but, at the same
>time, it could increase your system bus utilization, especially in a
>VLAN/SVI or distributed etherchannel environment, because you may do
>multiple lookups for the "same" OIF, one for each egress card with
>that OIF (eg, SVI 100 on cards 1 2 & 3 would each submit a lookup for
>the replicated copy to the PFC over the bus in egress mode; vs
>ingress mode where only one copy would be looked up at the PFC).
>
>In the end, though, at realistic packet sizes & data rates, this is
>probably not a major consideration, but you should probably consider
>monitoring bus, fabric, and fwding engine utilization to make sure
>you're not on the hairy edge.
>
>Thanks,
>Tim
>
>At 04:51 PM 10/9/2006 +0100, christian.macnevin at uk.bnpparibas.com commented:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I was under the impression that egress multicast replication required an
> >onboard DFC on a 67XX card, yet
> >I've got a box fully populated with 6748-SFP cards here telling me it's
> >current mode of replication is Egress.
> >
> >Doesn't this require the MET to be programmed onto the DFCs?
> >
> >Cheers
> >Christian
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
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