[c-nsp] Curious... 2800 or 3800

[Justin Shore]

Gary Stanley wrote:
> At 04:29 AM 4/2/2007, Shaun wrote:
>> The 2800's look to support a bunch of modules, ds1,ds3,gb,etc... I was
>> wondering how well a 2811 or higher unit would work to use as a border
>> router uplinked to a upstream at Gbit.  If the 2800's cant handle it,
>> how about the 3800's?  Right now i'm using 3750's for this using roughly
>> ~100mbit in/out and only receiving default routes from upstream.
>>
>> ~Shaun
> 
> A 2811 will blow up with that much traffic for routing. I don't think 
> any of the 28xx series can handle that much traffic, I had a 2851 and 
> it was at 90% CPU with 75mbit of traffic
> 
> Please read;
> 
> http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf

Agreed.  Pick up a 7206VXR w/ a NPE-G2 or a short stack 7600 if you want 
to support that kind of bandwidth.  Even the 3845 maxes out at around 
256MB.  A NPE-G1 is 520 I believe.  That NPE-G2 is a full Gig.

Justin