From: Brown, Patrick (NSOC-OCF} (PBrown4@chartercom.com)
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 01:26:24 GMT-3
7200 series routers is one of the worst platforms Cisco has ever made. Between the I/O controller, NPE failing, and the chassis midplane, they are a piece of ....! Good luck trying to find stable code on the 72's. Now I know how Juniper M10's made it in the market! You can push 40 Megs threw an I/O with an NPE-300 or better, but it's not recommended. If you do this, try to put the other high utilization interface on a PA in slot 2.
~Patrick Brown
-----Original Message-----
From: Erick B. [mailto:erickbe@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 7:57 PM
To: Jay Hennigan; Kyaw Khine
Cc: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Subject: Re: 7206VXR I/O Controller board
Is this the 2 port FE I/O controller?
If so, maybe your running into bug id CSCds72867.
On a Cisco 7200 series router-I/O-2FE/E io-controller
or PA-2FE-TX or PA-2FE-FX port adapter, the interface
may stop receiving under extreme loads.
There is no workaround.
--- Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Kyaw Khine wrote:
>
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I've a 7206VXR with a NSE-1 card. At some point, I
> read that FE interface on
> > I/O controller is for management and not suitable
> to pass large amount of
> > traffic. I could be wrong.
> > Anyone have experience, tech notes or thoughts on
> this?
>
> Experience says that they work just fine for large
> amounts of traffic.
> I haven't seen anything to the contrary. The only
> Cisco FE interfaces
> for 7200s that you need to be wary of are the
> PA-2FE-ISL units. These
> aren't recommended for high bandwidth.
>
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