[c-nsp] catalyst 3560 performance issue

[Marko Milivojevic]

You will experience no performance degradation with ~100 Mb/s. We have 
several 3560 routing and switching much more than that.

As Asbjorn already mentioned, SDM template would affect performance only 
when resources (memory) have been exhausted, which is most probably not the 
case. How many routes/MAC addresses will you have?


Marko.

Vladimir Rabljenovic wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> Thank you for the answer. I will try to be more precise. 
> I would like to know how this relate to situation when switch acts also as L3 device (in parallel to
> L2 switching). 
> I have a situation that around 100Mbps of traffic is expected to come via 2Gig port-channel trunk,
> then L2 switched to a few FastEth interfaces. After that, this traffic is coming back on some other
> fasteth interfaces into switch, and is L3 routed towards mentioned 2Gig port-channel via different
> Vlan. 
> So, when using desktop routing sdm template, I am interested whether I could experience some
> performance problems or not. 
> Unforunately, I am not currently in the position to run some extensive test with traffic generators.
> If someone has some experience on this, I would very much appreciate to share it with me.
> 
> thanks in advance
> vlado
> 
> 
>>> In general, I am interested about info about performance
>>> comparison when different sdm templates/scenarios are deployed.
>> The choice of SDM template doesn't (directly) affect the
>> forwarding performance, only how the (obviously finite) amount
>> of hardware resources are sliced up for different purposes.
>>
>> Of cause, if you slice it up incorrectly, it may adversely impact
>> performance when you run out of some ressource.
>>
>> See http://tinyurl.com/e7k8w
>>
>> -A
>>
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> 
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