>May I ask how people on the list are actually doing stress testing on cisco
>routers and switches to discover the real vs advertised capacity and
>performance.
Crank the packet size right down and run a full line rate test. This gives
the maximum forwarding rate for the ASIC/CPU. Monotonically increase the
packet size to check there are no "funnies" waiting for you with overhead
etc.
Matt.
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