[c-nsp] Best Router for 3-6 gigabit ethernet interface routing?

[Chris Serafin]

> As long as you're not doing anything too fancy on the routing front, 
> the 3750's are a good solution for this. Given that the ports are 
> slightly oversubscribed on some models (as I understand it) just make 
> sure your devices aren't in the same group of four ports and you 
> should be fine...
>
>   
Why the same group of 4 ports? i don't understand, could this be 4 ports 
per ASIC?

I'm thinking with them stacked with the multi gigabit backbone and 
static routes for the 6 networks [VLANs]  and ACLs betweens them when 
needed.
 
Thanks for your initial response.

Chris Serafin
IT Security / Cisco  VoIP Engineer
chris at chrisserafin.com
 




> The 2851 will max out (according to cisco) at around 112 Mb/s while 
> the 3845 will go to 256 Mb/s. So, well short of gigabit speeds. And 
> that's assuming you're not doing anything other than routing. YMMV. 
> For reference, there is a gig HWIC (HWIC-1GE-SFP) but I seriously 
> doubt you'll get anything close to gigabit out of it. Not sure of the 
> inherent limitations of a HWIC slot.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf
>
> HTH.
>
> B. 
>
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