Re: [nsp] RSP/VIP performance question

From: Avi Freedman (avi@freedman.net)
Date: Sat Sep 11 1999 - 20:47:30 EDT


> >Nothing else was particularly loaded (cpu/bus/...), lots of configs were
> >tried, lots of different hardware, and we've never been able to achieve
> >anything like 400mb out of a VIP 2/40.
>
> I didn't say that you could get 400mb/s out a a VIP2-40.

Sorry, I thought that's what you said.

> >Well, that's dancing around my question a bit.
>
> I wasn't intending to dance around the issue.

Again, didn't mean to be condescending, just trying to figure out your
message.

> >The question was: are those raw-performance numbers based on observation
> >on a real router, or just theoretically computed?
>
> No, I haven't observed the numbers. I'm basing it on the numbers used in
> the configuration guidelines, which are based on design goals which the
> product can achieve.

OK. That's what I was wondering. Design goals and configuration guidelines
are interesting, but actual experience varie...

> -rb

Avi



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