> >That seems a bit high; 200Mbps-250Mbps seems more reasonable for a 2/40.
>
> I'm not making up the numbers, Avi. Those are the numbers that are used in
> the configuration guidelines for the VIP2-40. Of course, it's dependent on
> packet size, since the 65kpps limit can be reached at a much lower
> throughput level if the packets are small.
I'm sure you're not, but that's not what we've seen with a normal mix
of production traffic, is all, across many different IOS versions, with
cef, optimum, flow, and distributed or not.
> So, for packet sizes below 692 bytes the throughput will be limited by the
> packet switching capability of the VIP2-40. For packet sizes above 692
> bytes the throughput will be limited by the bandwidth of the VIP2-40.
>
> These are raw performance numbers. Turning on software features which
> require CPU resources from the VIP2 will reduce the CPU cycles available for
> switching packets.
Are those reality-numbers or theory-numbers?
> -rb
Avi
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Aug 04 2002 - 04:12:05 EDT