Network processor bundling functionality has the following limitations:
Network processor bundling allows a total of 16 PICs per
bundle and eight different network processor bundles system.
You need to reboot the device to apply the configuration
changes on the bundle.
Network processor bundling is below the reth interface
in the overall architecture. You can choose one or both the interfaces
from the network processor bundling to form the reth interface.
If the IOC is removed from a network processor bundle,
the packets forwarded to the PIC on that IOC is lost.
When the network processor bundle is enabled, the ICMP,
UDP and TCP sync flooding thresholds no longer apply to an interface.
Packets are distributed to multiple network processors for processing.
These thresholds will apply to each network processor in the network
processor bundle.
Network processor bundle is not supported in the Layer
2 mode.
Due to memory constraints on the EZchip, the number of
network processor bundled ports that are supported per PIC is limited.
Within the network processor bundle, each port needs to have a global
port index. The global port index is calculated using the following
formula:
