On that topic, does anyone know what type of real world throughput one should be able to get on the onboard GE ports? I know they aren't limited by the PCI bus, as they are built in, but can they be run full bore, or anything close to it?
--- Howard Leadmon > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cisco-nsp- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Graham > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:20 PM > To: Sridhar Ayengar; Pete Templin > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] gigabit ports/modules for 7507 and 7513 routers > > > --- Sridhar Ayengar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Pete Templin wrote: > > > My understanding is that the PA-CyBus interface is a variation of PCI > > > that's limited to 330Mbps. > > > > So then doesn't that limitation also apply to the 7200VXR series routers? > > Yes, which is why the NPE-G1 and NPE-G2 have onboard gigabit interfaces that > don't touch the shared backplane, along with the addition of VSA for NPE-G2. > Theoretically the bus bandwidth to a PA in C7200-JC-PA could be increased as > well, though I don't believe this is done presently. > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
