[c-nsp] overly optimistic pps rates?

[Andrew]

Why yes, I did mean 90kpps, sorry.  And yes, this would be for 40Mbps
of VoIP traffic.

On 3/17/06, Jon Lewis <jlewis at lewis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Andrew wrote:
>
> > average internet traffic?  I'm looking to run a full DS3 with a Cisco
> > 2811.  The 2811 wouldn't be doing anything else -- I was going to have
> > a Catalyst 3750 do a multihop BGP session to the far end of the DS3.
> > I'm looking to do around 30-40Mbps and around 90pps.  Is the 2811
> > going to cut it?
>
> Something's screwy with those Mbps and pps rates.  Did you mean 90Kpps,
> which would put your avg packet size at only 55 bytes (40000000/90000/8)?
>
> With real traffic of that order of magnitude, I'm seeing avg packet sizes
> of 250-600 bytes, depending on the direction of traffic flow I look at.
>
> Are you planning for 40Mbps of VOIP?
>
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