[nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance

Dennis Peng dpeng at cisco.com
Tue Jul 15 16:48:07 EDT 2003


Good eye! That would certainly put a damper on things. I believe the
"log" keyword will kick everything to process level. And depending on
the number of log messages generated to the console (I believe it
would be dependent on the specific traffic they are passing), it
certainly could bring the router to a grinding halt.

Dennis

Stephen J. Wilcox [steve at telecomplete.co.uk] wrote:
> they have the configs available.. linked from the site
> 
> http://www.nwfusion.com/downloads/routerconfig.zip
> 
> The first thing that stares at me is the acl logs everything and they have 
> console logging enabled.. perhaps that explains it?
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ejay Hire wrote:
> 
> > What I don't get is how they got the really shabby numbers from the Cisco.  I
> > just performed a similar test of throughput with a couple of 2501's back to
> > back with large ACL's applied and didn't get results that bad (measuring
> > throughput and latency with 64k and 1524 byte packets, originated from a Linux
> > box with traffic generator support, to various source and destination ip's
> > across a two serial interfaces with external csu-dsu's configured to emulate
> > t1 circuits.  Each serial interface configured for hdlc with a 50 line ACL in
> > place.).  Did they have Multilink enabled and route-caching disabled with d
> > cef turned off?  I've forwarded a request to the website for information about
> > the testing methodology.
> > 
> > -Ejay
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Voralt [mailto:peder at voralt.net] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:27 AM
> > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance
> > 
> > Just another ridiculous magazine "real world test".  I like how they don't
> > take price into account, by comparing a $14k Lucent to a $11k Tasman to a
> > $6200 Cisco to a $3600 ImageStream.  If that's the case, then I would say,
> > compare apples to apples, set a max price of say $14k and then compare the
> > highest end prodct from each vendor at that price.  The Cisco 3725 is
> > $10,500 and the 3745 is $14k (by their numbers).
> > 
> > Also, why did they use two 10M connections instead of one 100M connection.
> > That seems a little odd to me.
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire at isdn.net>
> > To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:51 AM
> > Subject: RE: [nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi all.  Anyone else take exception to this?  My real-world and Lab
> > experiences with the 2600 series don't come anywhere close the latency and
> > throughput issues they describe.
> > 
> > -Ejay
> > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at att.net.il]
> > > > Sent: 15. j?la 2003 9:13
> > > > To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > > > Subject: [nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/0714rev.html
> > > >
> > > > -hank
> > > >
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