On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, George Robbins wrote:
> Sort of. The general rule is that it doesn't speed up anything useful
> in the ISP realm, but can do magic in the content provider or firewall
> domain where you care what's beyond the packet header. The main focus
> seems to be on that and then traffic management.
>
> see: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/ifaa/prossor/nse1/
We pushed 320 megabit of traffic thru a 7206VXR with PFX. It was NATing
the traffic at the time. PA-GEs were used. This was with very little
traffic but 10 highspeed TCP sessions going thru the machine.
With a lot of people doing online gaming (CS mostly) it seemed the
performance was about halfed, so I guess it's the PPS that really hurts.
28-30kpps (probably someone flooding) made the routers totally bogged
down. I guess it's around here the 720xVXR reaches its limit?
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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