[c-nsp] PPS Limit on GSR 12000

[Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer)]

Brian Boles <> wrote on Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:58 PM:

> I have a few 12012's that seem to crap out once they reach 100K PPS
> on any of my interfaces (oc-12,oc-48, or GigE).  Response time on the
> box comes to a crawl, and BGP sessions begin dropping...
> 
> Is this the magic number for the GSR's, or should they be able to
> handle more than that?

packet performance on the GSR depends on the LC engine used. E0/E1 are
using the LC-CPU for forwarding and are pretty limited, features have a
performance impact. E2 and higher use HW-based forwarding, and you can
switch millions of packets/sec. 

	oli