[c-nsp] Best practice - Core vs Access Router

[Manu Chao]

Can you please share following output:

show fabric utilization



On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Andy B. <globichen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
>
> > If all of that traffic is transiting between the 6748 and 6704s, is it
> > possible you're filling (perhaps overfilling) the 40Gbps fabric the 6748
> has
> > to the rest of the chassis during short traffic spikes?
>
> The 6748 is not really doing that much. Maybe 3-4 GBps.
>
> Incoming Transit and IBGP comes with one 6704.
> The other 6704 is port-channeled into the VLAN
>
> > With that much going on, I'm surprised you're using a single 6509 vs
> having
> > things split between a pair or more of them.  Put some transit and some
> > customers on each...that way if one has an issue, needs a software
> upgrade,
> > etc., you can do a reload without the network going completely offline.
>  Or
> > are you already doing that, and the troubled 6509 is just one of
> multiple?
>
> This is already partially the case - I am working on improvements here
> as well :)
>
> Andy
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