jrhett at svcolo
Aug 21, 2007, 4:34 PM
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Extreme Switch CPU utilization on port-mirroring ? (Hamid Ahmed)
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On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:05 PM, St?phane Grosjean wrote:
> Extreme switches are asic based, not cpu. That means there's no
> real big deal on cpu usage. I assume it should be just fine if you
> stay on the official recommendations.
That's the theory, not the practice. In practice all sorts of things
bring your CPU up to 100%. I have a dozen different bugs about this
open with Extreme, even against direct claims made in their product
documentation, and they have demonstrated no desire to fix them.
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