BVI at OC3 speed [7:54828]

2002-10-03 Thread MADMAN
Has anyone out there ever configured a 7200 with a bridged OC3 interface that is then routed via a BVI?? The config is not the issue but can the router handle it as this link will be heavily used. Since the bridged to routed conversion is done in software I don't have a warm fuzzy about this but

Re: BVI at OC3 speed [7:54828]

2002-10-03 Thread Darrell Newcomb
Interesting. Wish I could provide a direct answer. Aside from NOT using BVI's :) I usually like to just make the assumption bvi's are going to be process switched to be safe which works for the small environments I've used them in. And they usually are process switched for interesting packets

Re: BVI at OC3 speed [7:54828]

2002-10-03 Thread Rahul Kachalia
IRB is in CEF path, what pkts size you are expecting for your line rate ;-) However you can get much better perf.with 1483 since it is PXF accelerated, but for that you need NSE1... thanks, rahul. ""MADMAN"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Has anyone out there eve

Re: BVI at OC3 speed [7:54828]

2002-10-04 Thread ORiordan Brian
Hi Dave, Just a brief comment to make on implementing BVI on Cisco Routers. From what I have experienced in the past, BVI does indeed actually eat up quite a lot of Router CPU. One thing that I would really suggest is to look into using RBE instead of BVI. This will definetely result in less CPU