[c-nsp] Small Router/Switch for a small site?

[Gert Doering]

hi,

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:30:20PM -0400, Paul Stewart wrote:
> Not questioning the statement.. But will an 1811 do *real-world* 35Mb/s
> or so?  We have some 3640's in production right now that are taking a
> beating pushing 12Mb/s (inbound trunked VLAN's terminated on one
> ethernet and 2 outbound ospf load balanced links).... CPU hits 80% at
> 12Mb/s

Something is wrong with your 3640.  Like "packets traveling slow path".

A 3640 can do better - as per the performance.pdf, to-be-expected
performance with 64 byte packets is 25-35 Mbyte/sec.  Real-worlds packets
are bigger, so the throughput will be higher.

gert



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