[c-nsp] Cisco Routers: Performance benchmark

[Seth Mattinen]

On 9/1/10 7:55 AM, bored to death wrote:
> hi,
> 
> thanks for the reply.
> 
> the document you pointed out 
> (http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerperformance.pdf)
>  was good for the start, thank you. but it was very limited.
> it just had the result for switching of 64Byte frame packets, not any static or 
> dynamic routing results nor any results about other frame sizes.
> as i know, the normal frame size of ordinary networks are 1500Bytes which is 
> very bigger than 64Byte. for example, in this document, the maximum switching 
> throughput for a 2821 router is ~90Mbit/s which is very low for a gigabit router 
> (of course it's because of very small frame size).
> 

The 2821 has gigabit interfaces, but it's most certainly not a "gigabit"
router.

~Seth