[e-nsp] Extreme Switch CPU utilization on port-mirroring ? (Hamid Ahmed)

[Jo Rhett]

On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Stéphane Grosjean wrote:
> Extreme switches are asic based, not cpu. That means there's no  
> real big deal on cpu usage. I assume it should be just fine if you  
> stay on the official recommendations.

That's the theory, not the practice.  In practice all sorts of things  
bring your CPU up to 100%.  I have a dozen different bugs about this  
open with Extreme, even against direct claims made in their product  
documentation, and they have demonstrated no desire to fix them.

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