Thanks Phil, The last question is about the effect of the SPAN on fabric load , the monitored traffic from other module will cross the fabric on its way to the replication engine of module WS-X6716-10T and contribute on fabric load right ?
Br. BEN HAMMADI Kayssar NOKIA SOLUTION NETWORKS Lead Engineer -BroadBand Connectivity JNCIE-M (#471), JNCIE-SP (#1147), CCIP Mobile : +216 29 349 952 / +216 98 349 952 Skype : kayssar ben hammadi -----Original Message----- From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of ext Phil Mayers Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2014 3:57 PM To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [c-nsp] SPAN destination on oversubscribed module On 09/01/14 14:47, Ben Hammadi, Kayssar (NSN - TN/Tunis) wrote: > Dears , > > We have two 6509 interconnected via port-channel of two 10Ge port > carrying about 3Gb. the module used is WS-X6716-10T and only the two > mentioned port are used on this module for the moment . We are now > adding a monitoring probe that will be connected on this module , the > estimated monitored traffic is about 8Gb . Since this module has an > oversubscription rate of 4:1 , i need to check : You need to be really careful with this on a 6716. As you have hinted, you absolutely can blow away production traffic. > > * On witch port it is recommended to connect the new probe > without affecting the port channel An unused port-group, or one with <2Gb/sec of TX traffic. > * can one port on this module reach 8Gb of monitored traffic Yes, but only if the 4-port port-group has 8Gbit/sec of TX capacity. > * the monitored traffic will be added to the actual Swicth load > or it is transparent ? Not sure what this means. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/