[c-nsp] Cisco Switch Packet Buffering Matrix?

[Andrew Miehs]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:

> On 02/05/2013 13:21, Andrew Miehs wrote:
> > For iSCSI I would be looking at 45xx, 49xx, 65xx or Nexus 5k or 7k.
>
> 6500 lan cards also have quite poor buffers.  Better to use a system with
> larger shared buffers rather than smaller dedicated buffers, if it's
> store-n-forward.  Cut-thru switches behave slightly differently.


Do the WS-X6748s also have these issues? I wouldn't even bother trying with
the smaller cards....