[f-nsp] Looking to replace Alteon 180e with ServerIron

[Samit]

Thanks for your valuable feedback.

SI350 or SI450 w/  WSM6, J-BxG or  J-B4Gx  and Traffic Works PREM should
fullfill my requirement am I right?

Regards,
Samit

Oliver Adam wrote:
> Correct - the limit is a global one. Moving to the bigger Foundry boxes
> based on WSM6-2, WSM6 and WSM7 blades you are going to have limits per
> processor (5 million per processor) but not per port.
> 
> R, Oliver
> 
> At 17:07 18.11.2008, Mike Allen wrote:
>> Samit, yeah, there is no limit per port for the SI.  The numbers are
>> global, and all are usable whether you use all the ports, or a single
>> physical interface.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Samit
>> <<mailto:janasamit at wlink.com.np>janasamit at wlink.com.np> wrote:
>> Hi, Thanks for the datasheet, but whatever concurrent L4 sessions
>> mentioned in the datasheet  it seems like it is total max session/sec
>> capacity of whole box? Is there any per/port max session limit? like
>> Alteon has only max session of 21404/interface.
>>
>> in->100k-sessions-->Port1(L4 switch) Port3 -->traffic-out
>>                                            Port2
>>                                                |
>>                                                |
>>                                         Proxies Farm
>>
>> Regards,
>> Samit
>>
>>
>>
>> Oliver Adam wrote:
>> > Please find the datasheets of the XL and the 350 attached (actualle the
>> > GT-C which is the bundled version of the 350).
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Oliver
>> >
>> > At 15:52 17.11.2008, Samit wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I am using Alteon 180e as a L2 switch for my web traffic
>> redirection to
>> >> squid cache since last 7 years, without any problem. The specs of
>> Alteon
>> >> web switch says it can support 24k web sessions/sec.  But per
>> interface
>> >> slb maximum session in the switch  is 21504 and total slb max
>> session is
>> >> 172032, which is not mentioned in the datasheet.
>> >>
>> >> Currently I have aggregated 30,000 web redirection sessions per/sec
>> and
>> >> I am managing this sessions by dividing the traffic  and sending it
>> >> in 3 different ports of 180e. I recently observed that 180e is missing
>> >> connection some time and my users are getting 'tcp reset" . I
>> believe it
>> >> is hitting the box session limit to high no of concurrent sessions per
>> >> sec, though the box shows terminated connection occasionally because
>> >> while I bypass traffic of few prefixes to decrease the sessions it
>> runs
>> >> just fine.
>> >>
>> >> The traffic is rapidly increasing I would just  send the traffic for
>> >> redirection from just 1 port  but unable to do so.... What would be
>> the
>> >> best alternative to upgrade this switch in terms of price and
>> >> performance?
>> >>
>> >> I required at least 100k sessions/sec inbound L4 web redirection
>> session
>> >> in one single  port. And 3 Gig port is adequate for me.
>> >>
>> >> Nortel Alteon 3408E is way way too expensive comparatively to
>> Alteon180e
>> >> which is available  in ebay for 300$. Can any Foundry's older
>> models can
>> >> do it?  like "T8SLBF ServerIronXL/G 8 port Gigabit SX, 400Mhz
>> processor,
>> >> 32MB DRAM, Internet IronWare" , SI 350Any other good suggestions?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Samit
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