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harbor235 at gmail

Oct 6, 2009, 11:24 AM

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BigIron

All,

I am looking for perfromance stats for a BigIron Jetcore, information is
very scarce.
I am having CPU problems and on once inteface I am seeing 350m of bandwidth,
aggregate
through the box is approx peak 725m. Can this box handle this?

I am seeing a good bit of jumbos as well, how does a gig interface with a
standard mtu
handle jumbo frames? fragment? drop? if so is fragmentation perfromed in
hardware?

Any help on good troubleshooting resources would be appreciated,
foundry/brocade website
sucks

mike


gk at ax

Oct 7, 2009, 1:57 AM

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Am 06.10.2009 20:24, harbor235 schrieb:
> All,
>
> I am looking for perfromance stats for a BigIron Jetcore, information is
> very scarce.
> I am having CPU problems and on once inteface I am seeing 350m of
> bandwidth, aggregate
> through the box is approx peak 725m. Can this box handle this?

Depends on the kind/type of traffic. The box can handle even more if it
is all hardware-based forwarding. But beware of any CPU handled traffic,
this can kill the box very quickly.

> I am seeing a good bit of jumbos as well, how does a gig interface with
> a standard mtu
> handle jumbo frames? fragment? drop? if so is fragmentation perfromed in
> hardware?

If the interfaces are L2-only the box will surely drop any frames that
causes MTU mismatches. If you have a L3 config on that interfaces the
box can fragment the packets but this is CPU handled traffic when I
remember the internals correctly. What kind of BigIron box dou you have
- IrconCore, JetCore, RX?

> Any help on good troubleshooting resources would be appreciated,
> foundry/brocade website
> sucks

Indeed, the availability of public technical information for
Foundry/Brocade sadly tends to 0 and the documents you can download
after a registration is more CLI related then it would cover such
interesting stuff like hardware specifications.

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Gerald (ax/tc)

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jeroen at easyhosting

Oct 7, 2009, 2:31 AM

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I've got a nice CAM whitepaper from foundry that might come in handy
when handling a lot of traffic:
http://files.wunk.net/Foundry/CamPartitioningWhitePaper.zip

Might want to go over your cam partition settings and see if any
counters are hitting (near) 0, if so you might need to repartition since
when CAM runs out, the CPU will start handling packets. And you really
don't want that on the Bigirons.



harbor235 wrote:
> All,
>
> I am looking for perfromance stats for a BigIron Jetcore, information
> is very scarce.
> I am having CPU problems and on once inteface I am seeing 350m of
> bandwidth, aggregate
> through the box is approx peak 725m. Can this box handle this?
>
> I am seeing a good bit of jumbos as well, how does a gig interface
> with a standard mtu
> handle jumbo frames? fragment? drop? if so is fragmentation perfromed
> in hardware?
>
> Any help on good troubleshooting resources would be appreciated,
> foundry/brocade website
> sucks
>
> mike
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