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Originally Posted by Sami
Hello to everyone,
We were having some packet loss issues this morning due to our Soup1 card on the cisco 6500 card. We have purchased a Soup card giving us stable 10Gbps capacity which should get rid of any packet loss we were facing the past 2 days.
Switch to the new card did cause approximately 2 hours downtime.
This event caused downtime to approximately 20% of our customer base.
We are now up and faster than ever.
If anyone has any questions, feel free to contact me on ICQ 311848143 or call 18883124113.
We thank you for your patience.
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Did you ever consider that putting Soup in your core switches might be a bad idea?
A better question is ... Why is your core switch based on a Supervisor1A, which was initially sold by Cisco in October of 1999. Networks that care about their customer's uptime tend to avoid buying antique, obsolete $25 supervisor blades off of ebay, and actually look at buying something that was released in the last 5 years...
For those who aren't familiar:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cisco-WS-X6K-SUP...QQcmdZViewItem
That's right - if you have a netgear that you spent $25 for at home, you could own the same router blade, which was the most critical part of their network, for the same price!
http://www.serverprovider.com/about_us_network.html
Looking at your network map - Pretty impressive that you have MSFC's (which is a Cisco daughtercard for 6500 supervisor blades) on your Foundry Bigiron's and Cisco 3524XL's (layer 2 switches that don't support daughtercards).
Another question - if you have this "redundant" network with "dual" 6509's, why did your entire network need to go down, since you claim to run HSRP (cisco's hot standby ready protocol).
I smell some BS...