Cisco Vip Cards.

Tue Dec 9 16:49:38 UTC 1997

Be careful. Cisco recognizes that VIP2-40's with OC3-PA's and any other PA 
co-habitating the VIP card will cause problems (packet loss under peak 
conditions). This is due to the huge overhead the SARing takes on the VIP's 
CPU. Cisco will not support multiple PA's within a VIP2-40. This is the 
primary reason they came out with the VIP2-50.

Cheers,
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From:	Bradley Reynolds [SMTP:brad at b63695.student.cwru.edu]
Sent:	Monday, December 08, 1997 6:59 PM
To:	rad at mail.usld.net
Cc:	nanog at merit.edu
Subject:	Re: Cisco Vip Cards.

> I just have a quick qustion.
>     I'm in the process of determining weather or not to purchase several
> VIP cards and modules for a few 7513's I have at remote locations
> accross the United states.  I spoke with some friends I have at cisco in
> referance to known related problems with the VIP cards (according to
> cisco there were close to non) but I am interested in some input from
> people who are already using VIP cards on 7513's.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
>
We have VIP2-40s running all over our network
with various port adapters (OC3, 8port serial etc)
and have had no problem besides flakiness when
we first implemented them.  Everything is working
well now.

brad reynolds
ber at cwru.edu
brad at iagnet.net