Re: port speed

Brian Rice (bri@whitestone.com)
Sun, 24 Sep 1995 19:52:28 -0700 (PDT)

> >Some confusion here, no doubt based on the manual. The reference to Ports
> >S1 and S3 are with respect to the IRX router product. The PM2ER box has
> >1 WAN ports (W1) which can support synchronous speeds up to E1. The
> >remaining ports are asynchronous and can support DTE speeds up to 115200 bps.
>
> Some confusion here, no doubt based on the manual. ;) (sorry. couldnt resist).

Yeah, OK, I asked for that. :-)

> Maybe confusion on my part though. Although the manual says the IRX can
> go to E1 on its sync port, it wont. On E1 it looks amazingly like a T1.
> No way it gets upto 2048kbit. Especially not on both ports, but even
> 1 port has difficulties with E1. Ofcourse, this may have all been fixed
> in the PM2ER, and if so, great work :).

This is an interesting description ... I'd like to hear more about this ...
here why: Since our router ports get clock from the TelCo (referred to
as network clock) I find it odd that the port speed would appear to anything
but what the network was feeding it. I assume you use the word "appear"
because performance testing has identifed actual throughput less than 2048K?

> Obquestion: any idea on OSPF/BGP yet? :)

Obanswer: Yes, we all agree it's a good idea. :-)

--
Bri


Anybody taking side bets how bad I get it for that one?  I'll take 8-5 on
at least 12 flames.