All,
>
>I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to get sensible answers
>from
>Cisco TAC, so thought I'd ask the educated masses who may have come across
>this before...
>
>I've got a Cisco ASR1004 with RP2, ESP40, 2 * SIP40's, and 8 * 10GE ports.
>
>A snapshot of usage on these ports at peak is:
>
>Interface RxBps RxPps TxBps TxPps
>Te0/0/0 4,385,563,000 515,508 906,118,000 339,997
>Te0/1/0 3,942,338,000 419,696 984,150,000 358,436
>Te0/2/0 3,949,993,000 425,192 933,257,000 349,145
>Te0/3/0 4,375,526,000 512,858 873,284,000 334,751
>Te1/0/0 1,186,440,000 454,714 5,474,029,000 630,916
>Te1/1/0 622,154,000 244,056 3,181,689,000 338,190
>Te1/2/0 711,493,000 253,275 3,211,560,000 340,950
>Te1/3/0 1,218,873,000 437,195 4,831,708,000 568,488
>
>TOTAL 20,392,380,000 3,262,494 20,395,795,000 3,260,873
>
>I'm seeing throughput issues on a portchannel consisting of Te0/0/0 and
>Te0/3/0
>(it won't go over 10Gbps aggregate)
>
>Cisco TAC are telling me if I add TxBps and RxBps totals together, I get
>40Gbps,
>so I've reached capacity of the QFP (i.e. ESP40).
>
>My arguement against this is that a packet which enters the router on
>Te0/0/0,
>goes through the SIP40 in slot 0, through the ESP40, through the SIP40 in
>slot
>1, and out through Te1/0/0 is still just one packet, so should only need
>to be
>counted once through the ESP, and once for each SIP. Hence, the throughput
>on
>the ESP is only 20.3Gbps on those numbers above.
>
>If I poll ceqfpUtilProcessingLoad by SNMP, I see peaks of around 65%, which
>would correlate with this level of throughput.
>
>I'm assuming there are others of you using this platform. What sort of
>throughput are you seeing? Am I right, or is the Cisco TAC engineer?
>
>TIA,
>
>Simon
