[c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

Vincent Aniello vincent.aniello at pipelinefinancial.com
Fri Sep 10 13:50:03 EDT 2010


This is on a 3650E switch.

Thanks.

--Vincent

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at foobar.org] 
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:31 PM
To: Vincent Aniello
Cc: Heath Jones; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

On 10/09/2010 18:18, Vincent Aniello wrote:
> I am trying to solve a output drops on switch ports on which bandwidth
> utilization does not seem to exceed the port speed.  Seems like the
> drops are due to the buffers filling up and dropping frames.  I am
under
> the impression that each ASIC has their own buffer and if the buffer
> fills on a particular ASIC all ports that share that ASIC will also
drop
> frames.  If I know the switch interfaces associated with each ASIC I
can
> redistribute the connections on the switch to better balance the load.

What sort of card are you using?

Nick



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