[20536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigarouter performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Oct 16 06:53:24 1998
To: Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 <rogerio@embratel.net.br>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, eng-l@embratel.net.br, neil@domino.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:31:00 -0200."
<199810151531.NAA07296@rjo09.embratel.net.br>
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 11:36:53 +0100
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:31:00 -0200 (EDT)
Rogerio Alvarez - DRS23 <rogerio@embratel.net.br> wrote:
>
> I know that these boxes work well, theoretically, but I really want to know
> if any major ISP is using gigarouters on their core.
>
> Another issue is, if I have 30 ATM PVC´s over an OC-12 interface, how
> well this box will treat , it will provide QoS for all the PVC´s without
> impact the other services?
The GRF-400 can't cope with 2 PVC's on an OC-3 interface properly.
If one PVC overly maxes out it connection it makes every other PVC on
the card drop packets. The PA-A3 card seems to cope with this on
a 7500.
Regards,
Neil.
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