Another thing that will help 7500s (if you have VIPS) is CEF and DCEF. This drops the CPU on the RSP to 2-3% but the VIPs will run upwards of 80%. 7500 will run just fine in my experience with ip route cache flow and CEF together.
- Jeffrey
"Neil J. McRae" wrote:
>
> Frank,
> The golden rules we have with cisco boxes is buy the fastest box
> and put as much memory in as you can it. We suffered with SRAM issues in
> VIP2/50's and ever since that I've not take any chances.
>
> Regards,
> Neil.
>
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am wondering on what kind of equipment you are running netflow switching.
> > We were advised that turning on netflow switching on our router, the cpu
> > load would go up by as much as 50 %. Obviously our 7XXX series cannot handle
> > that on high speeds (E3 and up). Our GSR's do not have problem running it
> > though.
> >
> > just like to hear from people that are running netflow switching with for
> > example OC3 's on 7XXX and what you're experiences are? Any recommend
> > configurations in terms of hardware and memory?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Frank
> >
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