[nsp] Throughput of 100 Mbps

[Vincent De Keyzer]

Thanks for the many diverse and creative answers. Some more info about the
issue, to answer the questions that have been asked:

The goal is to connect 3 LANs (in 3 differents areas of the city) to form a
triangle with speeds of 100 Mbps, 34 Mbps and 8 Mbps. If one of the 3 links
goes down, traffic should be rerouted over the other two links. A very basic
setup, as you can see. 

The links have an Ethernet presentation for port price reasons; although the
34 Mbps link is an E3 (from a transmission point of view), there is an
E3-to-FE converter at both ends of it. 

I was hoping to get away with (floating) static routes; but now I realise
that due to these converters, the line protocol might stay up on the FE
interface when the link is down (keepalives being answered by the
converter). So I might need OSPF - or even RIP.

Is OSPF/RIP supported by the 3550, Linux/FreeBSD box or other solutions that
have been suggested?

Vincent


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert A. Hayden [mailto:rhayden at geek.net] 
> Sent: jeudi 6 novembre 2003 23:04
> To: Vincent De Keyzer
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [nsp] Throughput of 100 Mbps
> 
> 
> You don't say what kind of connections and what feature set?  
> A 3550 is a pretty good layer2/3 widget.
> 
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Vincent De Keyzer wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >  
> > what's the smallest (read: cheapest :-) router that can process 100 
> > Mbps of traffic?
> >  
> > Playing with a 3620, I could only get around 40 Mbps. What 
> next? Do I 
> > need 7200? What about the 2600 XM, which I know very little 
> about?...
> >  
> > Vincent
> >  
> > PS: the machine in question would not need to do anything such as 
> > filtering, or huge routing tables. Just a handful of 
> (static?) routes.
> >  
> > 
> 
>