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

[jim bartus]

Thats 520mbps of 64 byte packets on the NPE-G1.  "Normal" workloads (like
say IMIX) could easily see 4 - 5 times that.

-jim

On 4/2/07, Justin Shore <justin at justinshore.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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