[c-nsp] How do ACLs effect throughput

[Terence Scott]

Hi JC,

Thanks for the link, it's the kind of info I was after :-)

Cheers,

Terence

-------- Original Message --------
*Subject: *Re: [c-nsp] How do ACLs effect throughput
*From: *JC Cockburn <ccie15385 at gmail.com>
*To: *'Terence Scott' <terence.scott at um.edu.mt>, 'Cisco-NSP' 
<cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
*Date: *13 July 2011 02:52:57 PM
> Hi Terence.
> Is this what you where looking for perhaps?
> http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/routerp
> erformance.pdf
>
> Ciao
> JC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Terence Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:52 AM
> To: Cisco-NSP
> Subject: [c-nsp] How do ACLs effect throughput
>
> Dear all,
>
> My organisation has two (old) Cisco 2600 series routers deployed in two
> remote sites, one 2620 and one 2621. So far these routers have been
> performing very well, however we are now looking at substantially
> increasing the bandwidth of the WAN links that connect these two remote
> sites to the central office. At present these remote sites connect to
> the central office via 4Mbps ADSL lines and we will be upgrading these
> to 100Mbps (full-duplex) optical fibre links. We are essentially trying
> to determine whether these old routers will still be able to handle the
> increased traffic load or whether we need to upgrade the routers as
> well. The information we have managed to find so far suggests that these
> routers would be able to cope if all packet switching is done in CEF.
> The set-up in these remote sites is quite simple and we only use
> extended IP access lists in order to control access to certain VLANs.
> Does anybody know whether these ACLs would cause the traffic to be
> punted from CEF to process switching?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Terence
>
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