[c-nsp] Your opinions on router throughput

[james edwards]

On 10/28/06, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>
>
> If you have a NPE300 that's at 70% due to 10 Mbit of traffic, something
> is *seriously* wrong.  Like "CEF and fast switching turned off" or
> "massive BGP instabilities nearby".
>
> gert
> --




Totally. I had a NPE300  getting 2 full BGP tables, a DS3, uRPF and
exporting netflows
at traffic levels above 10 Mbit that was not pushing 70%. If CEF is on, on
all interfaces
then it could be features not supported by CEF. The "show interfaces
switching" command
is useful here.


-- 
James H. Edwards
Senior Network Systems Administrator
Judicial Information Division
jedwards at nmcourts.gov