[c-nsp] Catalyst 5500 RSM speed limitations.

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 08:46:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Thursday 09 August 2007, Troy Beisigl wrote:
> think it's seven or eight).  If you have NFFC I or II (the Sup IIIG includes 
> NFFC II functionality) you can enable MLS and dramatically increase your 
> throughput (up to the Supervisor's switching limit, typically 1.2Gbps per bus 
> for the three Cat5500-series buses) for certain flows.  See Kennedy Clark's 
> Catalyst LAN Switching CCIE book for the details.

Indeed.  I think we never used this because it's incompatible with output
ACLs or something like this (and we've never really needed raw bandwith,
as opposed to "features" - like "proper SVI counters" and such - on these
VLANs).

gert
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