[AusNOG] 7301 Broadband Aggregation?

[David Hughes]

I think our memories are of about the same vintage Macca.  I too recall trying to just use the PA's for FE's and sticking any Gig connections into the on-board interfaces.  They were solid performers when run like that.


David
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On 27/03/2012, at 3:41 PM, McDonald Richards wrote:

> We are going back a long time here, but in my experience the only ports
> worth using for ethernet on the G1 and G2 were the ones built onto the NPE
> themselves..It may have just come down to those being the only ones that
> support SFPs but I seem to recall something to do with the actual PCI bus
> being a lot slower than the interface used on the NPE to those ports.