Jason Luke wrote:
I actually don’t know if the linecard has a DFC. It’s an old 6509 and
keeping any hardware information straight on this proves to be confusing
to me.
This is what I have.
L3 Switching Engine II WS-F6K-PFC2
1000BaseX Supervisor WS-X6K-SUP2-2GE
Multilayer Switch Feature WS-F6K-MSFC2
Switch Fabric Module WS-C6500-SFM
When you say “some difference,” are we talking significant differences
here? This is basically the singular router for the entire organization
(3000+ computers) so EVERYTHING flows through it. If the difference
might be 2 or 3 times faster, then its worth it. But if the difference
is marginal or a few meg per second, then its kind of irrelevant.
Hmm. I'm more familiar with the sup720/PFC3 hardware than the earlier stuff.
What IOS version are you running? Can you "show mod"?
Are the servers & backup kit on the same linecard? If the linecard lacks
a DFC, then it's possible having them on the same VLAN would buy you
local layer2 switching, versus a (potentially contended) layer3 lookup
on the PFC/sup.
I can't be sure about that though - anyone know if the gigE linecards
for sup2 switch layer2 locally?
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