[c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Alireza Soltanian wrote:
>> My questions are is What will happen if we exceed capacity(Egress or
>> Ingress) in Channel#0 of Slot#2? Will device use Capacity of Channel#1?
>
> no - the traffic will be dropped.
>
> slot 2 looks like a 6708 card.  There's been a reasonable amount of
> discussion in the past on cisco-nsp about oversubscription on this and
> other 10G line cards on the c6500/c7600 platform.  Overall, the platform
> isn't good at handling 10G.

That's a little harsh.  It handles 10G fine...you just have to carefully 
plan your port layout if you use the [oversubscribed] 8-port cards and 
have some links that you expect/want to carry line-rate traffic. 
cisco.com has documentation online that will tell you which ports share 
capacity (and should not both be used by high traffic links).

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