[c-nsp] 7500 RSP8 Throughput Ability

[Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos]

I'm running just one GEIP on an 7513 and the box does about 120 Mbps 
with 60% CPU. I think that with more GEIP interfaces it could more than 
that.

Am I wrong?

Gustavo.



Dan Benson wrote:
> I currently have a 7200 VXR with an NSE running between 50 and 100MB  
> throughput on a daily basis (CPU around 60% at peak).  This router is  
> acting as a aggregate router for customers using dot1q to a 6500  
> switch.  I am planning on doubling this load to around 200MB's a  
> second when I rebuild this part of my network.  This router currently  
> is running OSPF with  my edge routers and has an IBGP mesh with about  
> 14 other routers.  This router will have around 25 downstream full  
> and default only BGP Customers homed to it in addition to the IBGP mesh.
> 
> My options:
> 
> I have a large inventory of 7500 hardware.  I was thinking 7513, Dual  
> RSP8's with 256MB of RAM.  VIP 4-80's with 256MB of RAM.  I will be  
> using 4 PA-				GE's and 1 Dual DS3 Chan cards.
> 
> As many of you will think, the 7200XVR with an NPE GE1 will be great  
> here, but I do not have one to allocate and I like the idea of route  
> processor redundance.  The other idea would be a 7300/7600/6500 all  
> with a SUP720, but again, I would rather not go out and buy 1 $10K  
> card when I have gear sitting around and the sup720 are not all that  
> cheap on the used market these days.   Other then that, I could home  
> this off a juniper, only to be plagued by GRE tunnel and Multilink  
> issues.
> 
> The questions:
> 	
> Can you all give me an idea of what a 7513 running say 200 to 300MB a  
> sec agg. traffic would see for CPU load?  Can anyone tell me what I  
> can expect for a bandwidth limitation on the backplane of these  
> chassis?  I am pretty sure I am on crack to even thinking I could do  
> this, so any info at this point will be helpful (I have 	only loaded  
> a 7500 up to around 70MB running D-CEF/IP cache flow and never been  
> happy with the CPU load).  If you all concur that this is pushing the  
> limits of the 7513, then sup720 it is.  Thanks a lot for the  
> help.   //db
> 	
> 
> 
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