[c-nsp] Replacment for 3640

[McCallum, Robert]

Barney,  I might be wrong here but the 3600 routers use the same processor
as is what is in an NPE-400.  I would opt for the NPE-G1 (or is it 100 -
damn 7300's).

Robert McCallum 
CCIE #8757 R&S
01415663448
07818002241 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barney Sowood [mailto:barney at sowood.co.uk] 
> Sent: 24 August 2004 16:17
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Replacment for 3640
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> One of my customers has a 3640 that's being used to route traffic from
> their core network to some access devices (an LNS for fixed wireless
> broadband, an LNS for ADSL and an NAS for dialup).
> 
> The 3640 connects to the core network via one FE interface and to the
> other devices with a second FE interface doing 802.1q
> 
> Currently the 3640 does iBGP with the two LNS boxes and routes about
> 10Mb/s of traffic (about 3kpps). It copes fine with this, usually with
> a cpu load below 50%, However, the traffic is likely to increase in
> the next few months, possibly up to 40Mb/s, and we'd also like to
> implement some traffic policing using NBAR. If you switch that on at
> the moment, the cpu load hits about 95%.
> 
> I'm basically looking for recommendations as to what to replace it
> with, we can probably get hold of a 7206/NPE-200 or a 7206vxr/NPE-300,
> do people think either of those would cope OK (I'd think so from the
> point of view of moving packets - it's more the NBAR overhead I'm
> unsure about)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barney.
> 
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