[c-nsp] Is the 6704 really as terrible as everyone says?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:41:29AM -0500, Drew Weaver wrote:
> I've read several posts on here that lead me to believe that the WS-6704-10G is essentially the worst linecard ever produced.

Definitely not.  That would have been the WS-X6148-GE-TX :-)

> The problem is, I only need 2 ports of 10G and just to replace 2x1Gbps uplinks that almost never get anywhere near their line rate capacity.

That's how we use them (actually, we use 3 ports, up to some 2 Gbps 
each), and so far, haven't seen any adverse effects.

We know it won't do full line rate, and especially not with bursty
traffic - but we're far away from that.

gert
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