[c-nsp] 1841 suitable for BGP?

[Tony Varriale]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gert Doering" <gert at greenie.muc.de>
To: "Tony Varriale" <tvarriale at comcast.net>
Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike at swm.pp.se>; <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 1841 suitable for BGP?

>So what?  It's the job of the CPU to handle, well, "CPU-based" tasks.

Umm...yes?

>Can you spell "prioritization"?

Can you spell "courtesy"? 

>If you see packet losses on a NPE400 *due to CPU load*, you're either
seriously overloading the box with packet forwarding tasks ("too many
small packets"), or you're not using CEF.

Obviously CEF is being used.  But, thanks.

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