Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 07:13:33PM -0400, Keegan Holley wrote: You can always buy more switches and move ports. The 2960 and the hundreds of other switches (and blades) just like it is a wiring closet switch for the enterprise. It should be common knowledge (no offense if this is new

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Daniel Holme
FYI The 48 port 3560E switches have 3x ASICs so you'll get the same buffer limitations across each set of 24 ports. Regards, --Dan On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Vincent Aniello vincent.anie...@pipelinefinancial.com wrote: So it looks like a WS-C3560E-24TD has two ASICs: switch#show

[c-nsp] Command default interface Gix/y

2010-09-13 Thread Rin
Hi group, Below is a weird problem when I set an interface on ES20 linecard to its default setting Router(config)#default int g3/0/1 Command rejected: not allowed on this interface. Command rejected: not allowed on this interface. Command rejected: not allowed on this interface. %

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/09/2010 07:05, Gert Doering wrote: ports, while the average egress load never exceeded 50% (!) The average that you're talking about here is measured over 5 minutes, which is an eternity in terms of packet throughput. If you drop your measurement interval from 5 minutes to something

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/09/2010 10:44, Gert Doering wrote: Nick, grant me a bit of understanding about averaging and bursts :-) Heh, this wasn't directed at you, really. But most people don't bother looking at numbers any closer than the 5 minute average - which tells you almost nothing about what's going

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:06:48AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 13/09/2010 10:44, Gert Doering wrote: (spreading out the packets), while most other streaming software creates somewhat massive wirespeed bursts, and then waits some milliseconds, and then generates a new wirespeed burst.

[c-nsp] Cisco 3750 Metro series mpls label range limitation

2010-09-13 Thread Martrès Jean-Jacques
Dear all, Did someone know the real limitation of MPLS range label on 3750 Metro series ? On many Cisco documents I've read that the max value should no exceed 1048575 but I can't go further than 8191 (12.2(55)SE). plr-pe-1#sh mpls label range Downstream Generic label region: Min/Max label:

Re: [c-nsp] C65K: Any significant correlation between import filter route-map complexity and BGP Router process utilization?

2010-09-13 Thread Jeremy Reid
Oli/All, Thanks for the clarification about no hardware assist whatsoever being involved in route-map processing -- makes sense: I just wasn't thinking clearly. ;) That said, just for posterity, we did notice about a 2% total drop in RP CPU by simply removing the match statement from the final

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Pavel Skovajsa
Interesting enough, yesterday James Ventre posted a note where he found at least some minimal info about the 2960/3560/3750 buffer amount: http://networking.ventrefamily.com/2010/09/3560ge-and-3750ge-buffers.html Also, I have to say I have exactly the same experience as Gert - IPTV streaming box

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread William F. Maton Sotomayor
On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Pavel Skovajsa wrote: Interesting enough, yesterday James Ventre posted a note where he found at least some minimal info about the 2960/3560/3750 buffer amount: http://networking.ventrefamily.com/2010/09/3560ge-and-3750ge-buffers.html Ugh, ugly. I was hoping to find a

Re: [c-nsp] C65K: Any significant correlation between import filter route-map complexity and BGP Router process utilization?

2010-09-13 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2010-09-13 11:08 -0400), Jeremy Reid wrote: Separate from the original question asked: We did find the true culprit for what was significantly elevating our RP CPU (BGP process) loads: An IPv6 peer that was activated under *both* the ipv6 AND ipv4 address-families... Once the errant

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread David Prall
On a 48 port 3560E, 24 ports per ASIC cat3560-2#sh platform pm if-numbers interface gid gpn lpn port slot unit slun port-type lpn-idb gpn-idb -- Gi0/1 1111/1 111local Yes Yes Gi0/2 2

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Evans
Seriously look at the juniper ex platforms if you are open to other vendors. They sound to be exactly what your are asking for. On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Pavel Skovajsa wrote: Interesting enough, yesterday James Ventre posted a note where he found at least some minimal info about the

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread sthaug
Ugh, ugly. I was hoping to find a box that could do 10Gb/s uplink and breakout as far down as 100Mb/s. Back to hunting again. Have a look at the new ME 3600X / 3800X series. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no ___ cisco-nsp mailing

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Phil Bedard
The 4900 is 16MB shared for the whole box. The Arista 7048 (not stackable) is about the only thing close to the S60, with 768MB. Phil On Sep 13, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 13/09/2010 17:28, Chris Evans wrote: Seriously look at the juniper ex platforms if you are open to

Re: [c-nsp] REP support on 7600

2010-09-13 Thread Brian Johnson
I'm doing it on WS-X6704-10GE cards without issue. My largest segment is 26 nodes and it is fast and reliable. AFAIK You should be able to run REP on any switching interface with an IOS that supports REP. Brian J. -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Benny Amorsen
Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de writes: Now if I had more time :-) it might be worth investigating the (Linux) streaming server software used, whether it can be changed to invest a bit more CPU to better smooth out the packets... OTOH, the kernel might just wreck this, and smear it all

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Benny Amorsen
Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org writes: From what I remember, the EX4200 has rather small buffers - not terribly different in size to the 3560/3750 range. This is from memory, so I could be mistaken. Juniper are rather coy on the topic, which is always a sign of relative paucity. If the box

Re: [c-nsp] C65K: Any significant correlation between import filter route-map complexity and BGP Router process utilization?

2010-09-13 Thread Arie Vayner (avayner)
Just a small tip when activating IPv6 in BGP - use the global bgp command no bgp default ipv4-unicast. This would stop the default creation of bgp peers under the ipv4 unicast address family, avoiding the below situation. Arie -Original Message- From: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:23:24PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: You can use pspacer to achieve something close to perfect smoothing of bursty traffic. Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try - it's not perfectly what we want (because it needs to know the target bitrate to shape to,

Re: [c-nsp] ASIC to switch port mapping

2010-09-13 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 13/09/2010 21:33, Benny Amorsen wrote: 3MB per PFE, according to: http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/implementation-guides/8010073-en.pdf http://kb.juniper.net/KB10963 so, the 24 port model has 2 PFEs (i.e. 6M buffer space) and the 48, 3 PFEs (9 meg). That's not really very much,

Re: [c-nsp] C65K: Any significant correlation between import filter route-map complexity and BGP Router process utilization?

2010-09-13 Thread Mark Tinka
On Monday, September 13, 2010 11:08:25 pm Jeremy Reid wrote: Word to the wise, outside of us previously failing to notice the V6 session output in a (v4) 'show ip bgp summary', there were no log messages, etc. indicative of the mis-built peer session, and the peer was up and working