I think there was a supportable way of adding another module via the IO slot using a special card in the IO slot that provides you with a PA slot that doesn't count towards the BW points of the other busses if I remember correctly.
Justin Shore wrote: > I have a situation on a 7206VXR w/ a NPE-G1 where I need to add a MC > DS3 module. The box already has 4 PA-A3-OC3SMI PAs. I'd like to add > a PA-MC-T3 to the box as well. I know that the OC3 PAs max the > bandwidth points out for each PCI bus. However the OC3s are very > lightly loaded. Looking back at the graphs I don't see any of the 4 > peaking over 5Mbps. That may seem surprising considering that there > are nearly 1000 PVCs configured on those 4 OCs for DSL customers; the > DSLAMs are very low-end, can only do basic ADSL, and the uplinks > restrictthe average access speeds to extremely low levels. > > So my question is what happens when I exceed the bandwidth points on a > 7200 where I know that bandwidth from the existing PAs won't ever be a > problem? The box as a whole peaks at around 12-15Mbps on its uplinks. > That G1 is truly bored, averaging below 10% utilization. I know that > IOS will bitch about it on boot but it will still continue to work > won't it? Any other side effects (other than TAC not liking it if > they see it until I demonstrate with the graphs that it's not a problem)? > > Thanks > Justin > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
