RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-31 Thread Luke Starrett
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:29:41PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: * The 7206VXR prior to the NPE-G1 could only do around 560Mbps per bus typically, due to PCI limitations. Which usually was not a problem with i-mix traffic or ddos-traffic, because pps limitation would hit

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-31 Thread sthaug
PXF is found in the 7400 (old) and 7300 (newer) series. Not true. 7401 has a PXF. It's essentially an NSE-1 with GE/IO in a pizza box. 7301 is based on the NPE-G1 and doesn't have a PXF anywhere in sight. On the other hand, the (original) 7304 used PXFs, on the NSE-100 forwarding

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-31 Thread David Luyer
Luke Starrett wrote (quoting me): PXF is found in the 7400 (old) and 7300 (newer) series. Not true. 7401 has a PXF. It's essentially an NSE-1 with GE/IO in a pizza box. 7301 is based on the NPE-G1 and doesn't have a PXF anywhere in sight. OK, more precisely (I did refer to the

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
Richard J. Sears wrote: I am looking at upgrading my current 7507 backbone routers. Each of my routers has dual RSP4s Keep in mind that dual RSP does _not_ mean load sharing; it's for redundancy, if you can get RPR+ to work the way you want that is. and I was thinking of upgrading them to

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread David Luyer
Michel Py wrote: My limited experience with the 7206 says that it might eventually be able to push _one_ gig from one PA to another, but not aggregate: say you have 4 or 5 OC3s aggregating into a GigE with some ACLs (which would run distributed on a 7500) I don't think that even the NPE-G1

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Simon Hamilton-Wilkes
One more interesting feature - if you need a 4th GigE port, you can add the GigE I/O card which still uses none of the bus bandwidth points. The buses are fine for OC3 and below... Simon

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Jack.W.Parks
be great. Jack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Hamilton-Wilkes Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question One more interesting feature - if you need a 4th GigE port

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
to create a comparison matrix and any info you have would be great. Jack -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Hamilton-Wilkes Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 9:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
Do you get commission from Juniper? Matt. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 16:51 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread sthaug
Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). Why do you say it is flow-based? You *do* use CEF, don't you? In which case 7200 with NPE-G1 is a prefix-based architecture, with

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). NPE-G1 might probably route 3*GE, without any services and if all 3GE

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread alex
Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). Why do you say it is flow-based? You *do* use CEF, don't you? In which case 7200 with NPE-G1 is a prefix-based architecture,

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
* The 7206VXR prior to the NPE-G1 could only do around 560Mbps per bus typically, due to PCI limitations. Which usually was not a problem with i-mix traffic or ddos-traffic, because pps limitation would hit sooner. * Compiled ACLs on 12.2S perform very well on NPE-G1s. I saw no

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Petri Helenius
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 16:51 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based, so you need to count *both* shared fabric capacity (aka PCI buses) and capacity of NPE to establish flows (aka pps rate). NPE-G1 might

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. Matt. -Original Message- From: Petri Helenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 17:43 To: Matt Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Alex Yuriev
It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. That would not have anything to do with Juniper sucking the least? Alex

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Petri Helenius
Matt Ryan wrote: It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing Juniper performance claim. If you feel differently, (and this might be a different list) you might want to back up your referring with some data. Pete

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Matt Ryan
unrealistic claims are made. Matt. -Original Message- From: Alex Yuriev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 January 2004 14:45 To: Matt Ryan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question It's not the Cisco bashing I was referring to, but the all singing all dancing

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flow-based means router's performance is based on number of flows established, and first packet of each 'flow' is processed differently [slower] from all other within the flow, and things like nachi will kill it. That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread jlewis
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Michel Py wrote: That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than an RSP8; however Isn't it somewhat wrong to compare the NPE-G1 to any RSP since most of the packets, most of the time, are handled by the processors on the VIPs and never bother the RSP other than

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Cisco plainly admits that the GEIP tops out at around 400mbit/s, but it's based on the rather old VIP2-50. Anyone know if they plan to put out a more capable GEIP, perhaps based on the VIP6-80, which theoretically would double

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread matt
... That is of course, as opposed to Juniper, which is truly line-rate at any interface, with any services, at any composition of traffic. No. While I was at my former employer, we took our edge ACL into the Juniper POC lab, and verified that an M40 stuffed full of OC48 linecards could

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
No. While I was at my former employer, we took our edge ACL into the Juniper POC lab, and verified that an M40 stuffed full of OC48 linecards could sustain just over 85% of line rate with our edge ACL applied before sustaining packet loss; the POC lab engineers double checked and verified

Re: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread David Luyer
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:29:41PM -0200, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: * The 7206VXR prior to the NPE-G1 could only do around 560Mbps per bus typically, due to PCI limitations. Which usually was not a problem with i-mix traffic or ddos-traffic, because pps limitation would hit sooner.

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Lincoln Dale
At 03:51 AM 31/01/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind, 72xx is still flow-based 72xx NPE-xxx is NOT flow-based -- unless you explicitly configure it to be. (i.e. disable CEF, enable flow switching). CEF is prefix-based switching - where all possible prefixes (routes/RIB) are already

RE: CIsco 7206VXR w/NPE-G1 Question

2004-01-30 Thread Michel Py
Michel Py wrote: That would be where the NPE-G1 would be better than an RSP8; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isn't it somewhat wrong to compare the NPE-G1 to any RSP since most of the packets, most of the time, are handled by the processors on the VIPs and never bother the