[c-nsp] cat6500/fwsm performance

[Jeff Bacon]

I am, however, left with one mystery. 


How can the Cisco docs on a FWSM claim a 30-usec latency when clearly it
isn't capable of that, at least not in any configuration that I'm aware
of? Granted that it's all lies, damn lies, and marketing material, but
putting that number in the main data sheet on the main product page for
the card is a pretty ballsy lie even for Cisco. 

 

From: David White, Jr. (dwhitejr) [mailto:dwhitejr at cisco.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 12:04 AM
To: Jeff Bacon
Cc: Pete Templin; Peter Rathlev; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] cat6500/fwsm performance

 

And here is a great doc TAC wrote up on single flow TCP performance
which should answer all your questions:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-12668

Sincerely,

David.