[c-nsp] Your opinions on router throughput

[Tony Varriale]

Yeah...I would agree.  I could show an NPE300 that isn't pushing 10mbps and 
runs around 70% average CPU (bounces off the rev limiter constantly). 
Obviously it's doing a lot of crap...but hey.

To the original poster:
It depends on what your traffic is like.  If you are not monitoring that 
customer's network, it's a good time to start.  That will give you a better 
answer to present.

tv
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org>
To: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Your opinions on router throughput


> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Gert Doering wrote:
>
>> Regarding the original question: a NPE-300 should handle 45 Mbit of load
>> just fine, *even* if it's all small packets - the "routerperformance.pdf"
>> file claims 180 Mbit throughput with 64 byte packets for the NPE-300,
>> and those numbers tend to be fairly realistic.
>
> 180Mbit/s of 64 byte packets through an NPE300?  And that 7206 fits in 1U
> of rack space too, doesn't it?
>
> For the humor impaired, I'm calling BS on those numbers.  I've watched
> NPE300's quit working at far lower traffic loads.
>
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