[c-nsp] Sup2 (Not Sup2T) on a 6513 (NON-E)

[Tim Stevenson]

At 02:02 PM 9/9/2016  Friday, Nick Hilliard asserted:
>Tim Stevenson wrote:
> > which is 8 x 1G
> > connections to 8 x 8:1 oversubscribed port ASICs.
>
>the easiest way to think of a 6148 is that it's like 8 individual 1G
>ethernet hubs connected into a 1G switch.


Now, now - a hub would flood everything to all other ports. ;)

But yes, this card is not one of the architectural high points in the 
c6k's history...

Tim


>   Once you visualise it in
>these terms, you can immediately see that performance is going to be awful.
>
>The best thing to do with these boxes is retire them aggressively.  It's
>generally cheaper to swap them out with 1U boxes than it is to pay the
>power (and consequently cooling) bill, if you look at it over a lifetime
>of several years.
>
>Nick





Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
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