[c-nsp] Cisco IOS as traffic generator ?

[Mark Rogaski]

An entity claiming to be kostas anagnopoulos (kostas.anagnopoulos at oteglobe.net) wrote:
: Not sure if ttcp when running on a cisco router is able to fill up an STM1
: pipe.
: For example, a 7200-NPE400 was able to generate only ~30Mbps before
: the CPU hits 70%
: 

I think the limiting factor is going to be the TCP window size.  But the
CPU utilization is one reason that ttcp should not be used on a production
router.

Mark

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