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

[Drew Weaver]

You don't find that 16x10 = 160Gb but the card is only connected at 40Gbps bothers you?

thanks,
-Drew


-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:05 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Is the 6704 really as terrible as everyone says?

On 02/12/10 15:41, 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.

I think that's probably a bit strong! 6148 for starters...

>
> 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.

We use them. They have some well documented limitations, but TBH we've 
never had a big problem with them. We're moving to 6716 for new buys 
now, for density and buffer size reasons, but we still have a bunch in 
the network performing fine.

I think you'll be OK if you're well under 10gig, and as you say the 
price/performance is an issue on the better cards.
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