On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:08:44PM -0400, David Coulson wrote: > Hi- > > I am looking at a deployment with a pair of 7301s with two DS-3s > connecting them. The intention is to extend an Ethernet segment from one > port across the two DS-3s to a port on the second 7301. Having used > bridge-groups in the past for high bandwidth applications, I realize > that they perform horribly and everything is process switched. > > 1) Is my assumption that the NPE-G2 will process switch everything > accurate? Last device I tried this on was a RSP4 based 7500, so I > realize the architecture is very different.
I thought we added bridging under interrupt level...still wouldn't recommend it though. > > 2) Is using L2TPv3 pseudo-wire with the DS-3s running as L3 routed > interfaces going to get better performance on this platform? Yes. > > 3) Did I miss something about bonding serial interfaces and having them > in a bridge group? I can't even fathom how that is supposed to work. Don't do it. Let the box encapsulate the raw frame in a L2 tunnel and move it over. It's much more efficient. > > If anyone has other suggestions, I'm open to them. > > David > _______________________________________________ > 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/
