[c-nsp] 877 Throughput and others

[Brett Looney]

> The portable product sheet lists the 870 series as Fast/CEF switching
> as 12.80 Mbps maximum theoretical throughput.
>
> Does this mean an 877 with a ADSL2 service trained up at 20-24Mbps
> will never actually be able to attain those speeds?

Pretty much correct. As per the previous message that is rated using 64 byte
packets so it will vary.

I've seen an 877 push 18 Mb/s with NAT (but no ACLs or other features
enabled) at about 95% CPU. Traffic mix was pretty much just web browsing.

B.