[nsp] WS-6748-GE-TX performance?

[Sven Huster]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:26:43PM +0100, Sven Huster wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Planning to use a WS-6748-GE-TX with a DFC3A, I wonder if anyone got
> experience with the performance I could expect.
> 
> It says in the specs that one should expect 40Gbps and 48Mpps forwarding
> performance for the whole module.
> 
> Any idea what that would mean down to a single port?
> So if i only got 20 ports or so used, can I expect linerate forwarding
> given small packets or would I need to consider it 1Mpps/port?
> 
> How about ACLs? Would I be able to drop at linerate while getting no
> performance hit on the permitted traffic?
> 

Thanks for the off-list replies so far.

Replying to myself to make the intention of the question to make it a bit
more clear.

In our setup this module will be used in a colo/dedicated servers 
data centre environment.
This means for us we will have 2 upstream connections to our ISPs 
on the linecard as well as a couple of links to an aggregation layer.

Basically I want to find out how well it would cope with (D)DoS as 
well as potential worm traffic internally?

Also, anybody who can offer some performance data for the 2 GE ports 
on the SUP720-3BXL?

Thanks
Regards
Sven