[c-nsp] 2800's and an extra FE port..

Dave Temkin dave at ordinaryworld.com
Fri Oct 21 08:48:45 EDT 2005


I can vouch for this.  With an Ixia box I achieved 96.5 mbit through it
using a SVI on a vlan with an EtherSwitch port and out an onboard Gig-E
port with IMIX packet sizes.

-Dave

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Christian Zeng wrote:

> * Merlin Gillespie <merlin at uk.clara.net> wrote:
> >Don't use the 4-ESW card if you want a genuine 100meg port.
> >The 4 or 8 ESW will perform at linerate between the ports, meaning that
> >it will switch at full 100meg between the switch ports on the ESW card
> >itself. All layer3 traffic has to cross the CPU and is restricted to
> >10meg of bandwidth across this path.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5855/products_qanda_item0900aecd8016c026.shtml
>
> The HWIC bus offers 100 Mbps bandwidth to the router CPU (in theory).
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