Re: Cisco Nexus

[Brandon Ewing <nicotine () warningg com>]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 12:51:04PM -0600, David Bass wrote:
> The n2k ToR is not a great design for user or storage interfaces if most of your traffic is east/west.  It is great 
> as a low cost ilo/drac/choose your oob port, or if most of your traffic is north/south.  Biggest thing to remember is 
> that it is not a switch, and has limitations such as not connecting other switches to it. Like anything else you have 
> to understand the product so that you don't engineer something that it wasn't designed to do. 

And remember -- The Nexus 2K performs absolutely ZERO local switching -- all
frames received from client ports are just copied to the upstream device, so
it can handle the frame/packet forwarding logic.

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Brandon Ewing                                     (nicotine () warningg com)

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