[c-nsp] 3660 and BGP

[Elmar K. Bins]

Hi Seth,

sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen) wrote:

> > The 3660 is lots faster than the 3640.
> > 
> > The routerperformance.pdf claims 25-36 mbit/s for the 3640 (64 byte packets,
> > no features) and 51-61 mbit/s. for the 3660.
> 
> My 3640 experience saw it max out around 10 to 12 meg, so without 
> knowing exactly how much faster the 3660 was, I figured 15 meg would be 
> a safe bet for real world traffic.

We had no problem with 3662s pushing like 25-30 Mbps each; they got
retired because they were only 256 MB boxes (and the 7301s are more
sexy). Ah, and only two full feeds, so CPU was pretty much used but
didn't thrash.

Yours,
	Elmar.