Hmm, I find it hard to believe that will work in a real world situation. Our
experience shows that an NPE-300 runs out of CPU at about 50,000pps (Cisco
claim 300,000pps) doing normal IP routing, and about 1500 L2TP
terminations.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kinczli Zoltán [mailto:Zoltan.Kinczli@Synergon.hu]
> Sent: 30 January 2002 15:56
> To: Adrian Mardlin; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] [nsp] performance of an IO-GE+E vs PA-GE
>
>
> Hello Adrian,
>
> Thanks for your input, but according to an independent
> test, with 12.1(5)T
> 8000 sessions has been demonstrated. (pppoA/pppoE) but the
> peek load was 100Mbps,
> see attachment.
>
> From other hand, as with 12.2(4)B there is PXF support for L2TP.
>
> Anybody out there running a 720xVXR with an io-ge, who can tell me
> if it performs over 200mbps fdx or not?
>
>
> regards, thanks again!
>
> --Zoltan
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Eredeti üzenet-----
> Feladó: Adrian Mardlin [mailto:Adrian@nildram.net]
> Küldve: 2002. január 30. 16:50
> Címzett: Kinczli Zoltán; 'cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net'
> Tárgy: RE: [nsp] [nsp] performance of an IO-GE+E vs PA-GE
>
>
> Until CISCO introduce L2TP support on the PXFs, you won't be
> able to run more than about 1500 L2TP sessions without
> running out of CPU anyway.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kinczli Zoltán [mailto:Zoltan.Kinczli@Synergon.hu]
> > Sent: 30 January 2002 15:29
> > To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [nsp] [nsp] performance of an IO-GE+E vs PA-GE
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Anybody can tell me about the performance of the io-ge+e's GigaEth
> > port?
> >
> > The PA-GE peeks at 400mbps (that is 200mbps full duplex).
> > On the 7400
> > the two
> > onboard gigaeth's perform at higer rate, provided the traffic flows
> > between them.
> >
> > What i'm currently investigating: if a 7206VXR w NSE-1 can
> > handle 8000
> > adsl
> > users and if i count only 64kbps per user it results in
> > 500mbps. Does it
> > make
> > sense to install two or three PA-A3 into the box? (We
> receive the L2TP
> > tunnels
> > via atm PVCs.)
> >
> > The CPU handles 300kpps, say the avg.pak size is 512Byte
> > (300000*512*8=< 1Gbps),
> > so CPU-wisely it's ok. It's roughly OK with two PA-A3's
> 'distributed'
> > between the
> > two PCI busses.
> >
> > BUT: how does the traffic exit from the router? A PA-GE peeks at
> > 200mbps, as we said.
> > What about an IO-GE+E's GE?
> >
> > I simply can't find any info on the IO-GE's performance.
> >
> > thanks in advance,
> >
> > --zoltan
> >
> >
>
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