[23052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco GSR, Gig Ethernet config?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john heasley)
Fri Feb 12 14:31:16 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:08:52 -0800
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
To: I Am Not An Isp <patrick@ianai.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990212093458.01dd2220@pgemail.pgexch.com>; from I Am Not An Isp on Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 09:37:07AM -0800
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 09:37:07AM -0800, I Am Not An Isp wrote:
> At 06:07 PM 2/11/99 -0800, john heasley wrote:
>
> >> Could we expect to
> >> support a second gig ethernet interface? So many questions!
> >
> >not at full bw; i believe this exceeds backplane bw.
>
> Perhaps you are thinking of the 75xx? I believe the GSR has a 40 Gbps
> backplane with something like 5 Gbps per slot. More than enough to support
> a gig-E card at full line rate in each of the slots on the 12008. Of
> course, whether the CPU, etc. can actually push that much - well, I dunno.
> Anyone tried it?
my mistake. it is the TTM GE that can not handle full b/w.
> >> John Haskins
>
> TTFN,
> patrick
>
> I Am Not An Isp
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