[c-nsp] Please help clarify bus/fabric terminology on the 6500/7600

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 12:06:36PM -0800, Rick Ernst wrote:
> The way that is written, a CEF256 card in a Sup720 equipped chassis will use
> the 8Gbs fabric to move data around.  In a sparsely populated (eg 2 CEF256
> cards) system there is more capacity on the shared 32Gbs bus than on the
> fabric.

Correct.

> Does forcing the card into flow-through mode address this?

No idea (we only have a few CEF256 cards, and they are in Sup2-no-SFM 
or in Sup32 switches).

gert
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