[nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance

[Ejay Hire]

What I don't get is how they got the really shabby numbers from the Cisco.  I just performed a similar test of throughput with a couple of 2501's back to back with large ACL's applied and didn't get results that bad  (measuring throughput and latency with 64k and 1524 byte packets, originated from a Linux box with traffic generator support, to various source and destination ip's across a two serial interfaces with external csu-dsu's configured to emulate t1 circuits.  Each serial interface configured for hdlc with a 50 line ACL in place.).  Did they have Multilink enabled and route-caching disabled with d cef turned off?  I've forwarded a request to the website for information about the testing methodology.

-Ejay

-----Original Message-----
From: Voralt [mailto:peder at voralt.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:27 AM
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Just another ridiculous magazine "real world test".  I like how they don't
take price into account, by comparing a $14k Lucent to a $11k Tasman to a
$6200 Cisco to a $3600 ImageStream.  If that's the case, then I would say,
compare apples to apples, set a max price of say $14k and then compare the
highest end prodct from each vendor at that price.  The Cisco 3725 is
$10,500 and the 3745 is $14k (by their numbers).

Also, why did they use two 10M connections instead of one 100M connection.
That seems a little odd to me.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire at isdn.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:51 AM
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> Hi all.  Anyone else take exception to this?  My real-world and Lab
experiences with the 2600 series don't come anywhere close the latency and
throughput issues they describe.

-Ejay

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hank Nussbacher [mailto:hank at att.net.il]
> > Sent: 15. júla 2003 9:13
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> >
> > http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2003/0714rev.html
> >
> > -hank
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