Thanks to everyone who responded. Looks like I’m going to have to invest in a PA-MC-2T3+ card for the 7206…I have at least four PA-MC-T3 cards, and they’re not going to work the way I want them to (unless I rate-limit them).
Thanks,
= TC
This is for point-to-point DS3, right? I don't think you want -MC-
anything, you'd want e.g. PA-2T3+ . (I don't remember the original
message though.)
mm
The PA-MC-2T3+ will do both channelized and unchannelized
DS3 with the same PA.
This makes it easier on some of us who need both and for
doing sparing of hardware. It's worthwhile to spend the extra cash
if you think you're going to need to do both clear channel and
channelized in the same box.. when it comes time to deal with
hardware failure, etc.. it'll easily pay for itself.
- jared
Once upon a time, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> said:
The PA-MC-2T3+ will do both channelized and unchannelized
DS3 with the same PA.This makes it easier on some of us who need both and for
doing sparing of hardware. It's worthwhile to spend the extra cash
if you think you're going to need to do both clear channel and
channelized in the same box.. when it comes time to deal with
hardware failure, etc.. it'll easily pay for itself.
The quite annoying thing about that is switching a PC-MC-2T3+ interface
from channelized (the default) to unchannelized causes a cbus complex
restart, which interrupts traffic through the router for a period of
time (the time varies based on the number of interfaces in the router).
Of course, since OIR sometimes can cause a router reload anyway, maybe
that's not such a problem. 
I stand corrected, thanks. I had thought the -MC- adaptors were
channelized only. Is that something with with the '+' or have I
just always been wrong? 
mm
The quite annoying thing about that is switching a PC-MC-2T3+ interface
from channelized (the default) to unchannelized causes a cbus complex
restart, which interrupts traffic through the router for a period of
time (the time varies based on the number of interfaces in the router).
Even with "service single-slot-reload-enable"?
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no