[c-nsp] Erspan on 7600

[Phil Mayers]

On 08/11/2010 09:02 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Phil Mayers wrote:
>
>> We've used ERSPAN on some truly phenomenal bitrates; it *is* done in
>> hardware.
>
> Sending ERSPAN is done in hw, I've done multigigabit ERSPAN.
>
> ERSPAN reception is not done in HW (at least not when I tested) and it
> killed the box when I tried :P
>

Really? That seems odd.

FWIW we seldom (In fact I'm not sure ever!) use an actual 6500 as an 
erspan receiver; we use "gulp" on a Unix box, or the wireshark ERSPAN 
decoder, depending on the requirements.