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hi Mike,

 

I don't have any switch in between. My Ixia cards are aggregated into 2 10G ports and I connect those ports to the 10G ports on 8800.

 

Thanks to your detailed suggestions, I disabled flow control on teh 10G interfaces on 8800 and my throughput went up to 6.5Gbps. I increased the number of users to 1000 and it went up to 7Gbps.

 

I'm happy with my throughput, but since I disabled flow control, I do see a bunch of TCP retries and timeouts on the server side Ixia. Is 8800 dropping packets at those throughput levels or Ixia is just sending more and since 8800 just does 7Gbps, anything above that is dropped by 8800??? Just wanted to understand your viewpoint of those drops.

 

Your suggestions have been an excellent help so far. Thanks a lot.

 

Jay