[cisco-nas] Cisco 3620 PPPoE session limitation

[Mugford, Paul]

Guys a new version can be found @
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/tools/quickreference/routerperforma
nce.pdf 

-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nas-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nas-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mounir Mohamed
Sent: 09 November 2005 13:08
To: Gert Doering
Cc: cisco-nas at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-nas] Cisco 3620 PPPoE session limitation

I believe that the attached PDF will totaly solve your problem :)


On 11/9/05, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:50:55PM +0700, Souphonh Phounsavath wrote:
> > I am looking for small scale. The number of customers will be less 
> > than 1000. Customer will have bandwidth of 256Kbps for down stream 
> > and 128Kbps for up stream. I think if 3620 PPPoE can support about 
> > 500 active PPPoE sessions for that traffic, I can start with it.
Please advice.
>
> I'd rather not do it.  The 3620 is old, dumb, and slow.
>
> It might be able to do it if all the PPPoE customers are just reading 
> e-mail, and not doing anything using lots of bandwidth - but if half 
> of them really use their 256 Kbps, that's 60 Mbit, and this is far 
> beyond what a 3620 can handle.
>
> You might want to get a 3640 from ebay (should be cheap), or get a 
> more reasonable device, like a 2851 or such.
>
> gert
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