[nsp] 2600 series bandwidth potential.

[Ryan O'Connell]

At 02/05/2003 19:46, tbaranski at mail.com wrote:
>Does anyone know the bandwidth capabilities of 2600 series, the 2691 in 
>particular?  I know the specs say 70kps with 64 byte packets, but I'm 
>wondering how it does with full-size packets.  Specifically, I'm concerned 
>about it being a bottleneck on a 100Mbit network (we're thinking of adding 
>a pair of them on an existing network to run a routing protocol with a 
>6509 for failover reasons).
>
>Has anyone tried pushing 100Mbits through one of these things?  Would I be 
>better off with a UNIX box running Zebra?

You won't get 100Mb/s full duplex through one. 70kps @ 1500 bytes is only 
105Mb/s - half what's required to support 100Mb/s both ways. That also 
assumes ideal conditions with static routing with no overhead for 
BGP/OSFP/SNMP/etc.