[c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

[Majid Farid]

Correction IXIA did had 2giga ports :) so traffic went out via one giga
port and in on the other. However I am told that CEF wasn't running and
CPU spiked :) that would explain the packet loss not the ultimate factor
but a big one.

--
Majid


-----Original Message-----
From: McCallum, Robert [mailto:robert.mccallum at thus.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:01 PM
To: 'Mikael Abrahamsson'; Majid Farid
Cc: Robert Blayzor; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

S6 is the max out just now.  Also youre Ixia only had 1 gig port??  How
did
you see packet drops.  I ran the rfc throughput tests on the box and had
these results.

Frame Size   	              64 	128	256	512	1024
1280
1518 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
---------------------------------
Pair1	 TxTput(fps)        1488095 844595 	452899 	234962	 119732
96154  	81274
	 %TxTput           	100.00  	100.00  	100.00
100.00  	100.00  	100.00  	100.00	
Pair2 	TxTput(fps)	1488095 844595 	452899 	234962	 119732
96154  	81274
     	 %TxTput            100.00  	100.00  	100.00
100.00  	100.00  	100.00  	100.00	

in other words I never dropped a packet.  With QOS configured on the gig
links I got....

Frame Size   	              64 	128	256	512	1024
1280
1518 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
---------------------------------
Pair1	 TxTput(fps)        844595 	811688 	452899 	234962 	119732
96154  	81274
	 %TxTput           	56.76  	96.10 	100.00 	100.00 	100.00
100.00 	100.00	
Pair2 	TxTput(fps)	735294 	811688 	452899 	234962 	119732
96154  	81274
     	 %TxTput            	49.41 	 96.10 	100.00 	100.00 	100.00
100.00 	100.00

>From above with qos configured on the gig interfaces I halved the gig
port
at 64 byte packets and lost 4% at 128 bytes.

HTH - btw these figures are for my testing.  In other words if you buy
one
based on the above figures then don't get the exact same throughput
don't
come moaning to me ;-D

Robert McCallum 
CCIE #8757 R&S


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:swmike at swm.pp.se] 
> Sent: 16 January 2005 07:32
> To: Majid Farid
> Cc: McCallum, Robert; Robert Blayzor; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Majid Farid wrote:
> 
> > How is S6 coming out for you? I have tons of problem with 
> ARP and BGP 
> > version not remaining same running S4. The latest one out is S8 I 
> > think.
> 
> We went directly from a special bug-fixed S1 to S6 and it has 
> been looking 
> good so far, but we have one bug case open on S6 but this is 
> brand new, S6 
> has worked well for a month or so.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
>