[c-nsp] 2800's and an extra FE port..

Christian Zeng christian at zengl.net
Fri Oct 21 07:31:26 EDT 2005


* Merlin Gillespie <merlin at uk.clara.net> wrote:
>Don't use the 4-ESW card if you want a genuine 100meg port.
>The 4 or 8 ESW will perform at linerate between the ports, meaning that 
>it will switch at full 100meg between the switch ports on the ESW card 
>itself. All layer3 traffic has to cross the CPU and is restricted to 
>10meg of bandwidth across this path.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5855/products_qanda_item0900aecd8016c026.shtml

The HWIC bus offers 100 Mbps bandwidth to the router CPU (in theory).


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