[c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

Ben Steele ben at bensteele.org
Fri Sep 10 14:06:00 EDT 2010


sh platform port-asic should list your ASIC's

port groupings are almost always in groups, so you can work out what ports
belong to a common ASIC by dividing the amount of ports you have by the
amount of ASIC's listed, keep in mind you will probably have a dedicated
ASIC for the 2 10G uplinks.



On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Vincent Aniello <
vincent.aniello at pipelinefinancial.com> wrote:

> 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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