ISP Scalability Feature

From: Matt Bentley (mattdbentley@gmail.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2008 - 12:18:38 ART


Hi GS:

Here is what I am trying to do. Those of you familiar with scalability
testing probably have heard of Ixia - and also know how expensive these
boxes are. We are testing the L2Protocol-Tunnel feature in CATOS (there are
a few people who still use CATOS). Because of the high per-port cost on
Ixia, we want to use a single Ixia port, sending MST BPDUs, where it will
hit a 3750 Metro and equally balance the BPDUs between ten ports, each
connected to a testbed of 6506's. We either need to cause the switch to
flood the packets out all 10 ports or find a way to direct them equally out
each port. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance
                       --------
                       | Ixia |
                       | |
                       |______|
                       / \
                      / \
                     / \
                |----- ------
                |3750| | 3750|
                | | | |
                ------ ------|
                / \ / \
               / Ten \ / Ten \
              / Ports \ / Ports \

---------------------------------------------------

              Ten Ports from 3750s Connect To 6500 Testbed Simulating E-LAN
Service (SP Cloud) (L2protocol Tunnel)



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