[c-nsp] Hardware Question

[Joseph Hardeman]

Hi Gert and Saku,

Thanks for everything, it took a night of little sleep and getting up this
morning reading both of your replies for me to go "Joe your an idiot" and
understand what I should have from the previous emails.  LOL

Very cool, I appreciate everything.  Hope you have a great day/evening.

Joe

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:15:12PM -0400, Joseph Hardeman wrote:
> > I ran the command Saku gave and it is showing the operating mode :
> PFC3BXL,
> > which I assume means that the CFC card is not bringing the SUP Engine
> down
> > any and it is operating in normal PFC3BXL mode.  Which should mean we get
> > around, if understand Saku's calculations correctly, then the engine
> should
> > be passing around 32Mpps from this card to the SUP engine.
> >
> > Do you know of any specific commands that I should run to help me make
> sure
> > that the hardware is running properly and the Line Card hasn't caused the
> > Engine to fall down to a B or A mode?
>
> As we both said, there is nothing in a CFC card that *could* cause that.
>
> The point is: if you have a *D*FC, it needs to operate the same as the
> system's PFC - and if the DFC is less capable (like: DFC is 3B, PFC is
> 3C-XL) the system will fall down to the lowest common denominator (like:
> 3B).
>
> This will not ever happen with CFC cards, so there is nothing to worry
> about - but if you still do: the command you used is the command used
> to check system operation mode.
>
> gert
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