[c-nsp] VS-S720-10G (6509 VSS Engine) 10G Port Issue

[Xu Hu]

Hi Phil Mayers,

Thanks for your reply.
Keep waiting for the information from other experts.

Best Regards,
Hu Xu

2012/6/12 Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>

> On 12/06/12 15:28, Xu Hu wrote:
>
>> Hi Experts,
>>
>>
>>
>> We bought VS-S720-10G engine for VSS in 6509, but now the customer don't
>> want use the VSS mode, they just want to use that as normal engine.
>>
>> So now we are wondering if we use the 10G port for normal Layer2 or Layer3
>> traffic, will it impact our engine performance or CPU utilization? Is
>> there
>> any detail document talking about this?
>>
>
> If I recall correctly, the sup720-10G is actually slight faster than a
> sup720 - it's really a "sup760". So the fabric has enough capacity.
>
> As long as you have enough PFC capacity (either because you're using DFCs,
> or because you only have a few ports) then it should work just fine.
>
> That is: the 10G ports are normal ports, and can be used normally.
>
> Disclaimer: I've never tried it.
>
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