[c-nsp] 1800/2800/3800 series

[Paul Stewart]

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Thanks for the info Brian (and everyone who responded).  Our needs are
quite simple at this point but like everything, I'm sure it will
evolve..:)

Brian Vowell wrote:
| We were running both a 2811 and a 2821 with BGP, IPS, CBAC, and ACL's,
| and it crashed at least three or four times per day.  I currently have
| ten or eleven cases open and logged against a bug in the CBAC code that
| is currently assigned to the development engineer.
|
| The only thing that we could do to stop these crashes was to disable
| both IPS and CBAC on the router.
|
| I'd recommend that you stick with something more stable like a 2621XM
| until a few more releases come out to fix this problem, unless you want
| to be doing QA for Cisco with your network.
|
| Regarding throughput, we max out at about 73 mbps on the 2821 on a
| single gigabit interface.  Anything above that, and the router starts
| dropping packets and we lose our BGP sessions when the BGP packets get
| dropped.  I need to do some work to setup some QoS for BGP to make sure
| that doesn't happen.  (Our peering and transit are on the same interface).
|
|
|
| --b
|
| Paul Stewart wrote:
|
|
|>Anyone have any throughput specs on these in pps and mb/s ?  Realistic..?
|>
|>Looking at deploying a few of them with IP FW IOS to protect some nework
|>segments... they seem like a nice choice.. might even try IOS IDS
|>features on these...
|>
|>Thoughts?  More worried about throughput.... don't need a lot but don't
|>want to buy 1800's and then find out their CPU is spiking..:)
|>
|>Paul
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