RE: Slightly OT: 6509 SFM and non fabric cards [7:37657]

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Williams
Update. Here's some good info on exactly this topic (careful for URL wrap): http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/prodlit/k6kfy_wp.pdf If you don't have a CCO login, change 'customer' to 'public' in the above URL. It pretty much lays out exactly what happens when a frame int

RE: Slightly OT: 6509 SFM and non fabric cards [7:37657]

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Williams
Here's the way I read it. The 6000/6500 series have a 32Mbps system bus backplane. There is also the switch fabric, with the Switch Fabric Module (SFM) allows you to tap into (I'm not sure, but it makes it sound like the SFM will allow the slots to communicate directly with each other instead of