Dear Friends,
I have just purchased 2 CRS106-1C-5S for creating Fiber Ring for My Local Network and For creating Fiber Ring i was creating Bonding in switch with taking 2 SFP Port as slaves and then i have created a bridge and added the Combo Port and the bonding in the same bridge but when i was trying to transfer traffic between both Switches it was able to transfer only 70 Mbps and Switch’s CPU Utilization goes to 100%. So getting Confused that why this is happening while the Switch have 6 x sfp ports that means it’s each port have 1 Gbps Traffic Capacity if need to check anything or need to do any configuration kindly suggest…
Well, look at the traffic flow.
From slave port 1 to slave port 2 it should only go through the switch chip. As soon as a bridge is involved, the CPU needs to handle the packets. Can it be that was the case?
Also what do you mean with bonding? Some are done in hardware, but most are again done through software.
Hello, in CRS106-1C-5S the CPU is connected to the wirespeed switch chip through 1Gbps lane and also its 400MHz is not capable of generating so much traffic to fully test switch chip capacity.
See CRS106-1C-5S block diagram: https://i.mt.lv/routerboard/files/CRS106-1C-5S-170928152116.png
You should consider other performance testing method where more powerful routers or PCs generate traffic through the tested switches.
