[c-nsp] Feeding low bandwitdth Ethernet WAN links with Cisco 6500

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 02:09:08PM +0200, Cisco NSP List wrote:
> I am thinking about the best practice to feed some low bandwitdh 4 Mb/s 
> Ethernet over SDH links from a Cisco 6500/Sup720 with SXI IOS.
> 
> The carrier equipment has 100Base-TX ports, does no noticable 
> queuing/shaping and aggressively drops everything over 4096 kb/s.

"Get a different carrier"?

Seriously, to make this work properly, you want egress shaping on the
ethernet links (and possibly QoS inside, but the shaping itself is 
important in itself to avoid losses for short bursts), and the Sup720 
can't do shaping...

gert
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