[c-nsp] Will the Cisco 2911 push GigE with NAT enabled ?

[Chuck Church]

Since everything looks like Ethernet, why not consider an ASA 5585-X?  This
is probably the cheapest thing you'll find that can do a gigabit of VPN.

Chuck

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Dave
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:53 AM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Will the Cisco 2911 push GigE with NAT enabled ?

Thats what I was afraid someone was going to say :) I guess its time to
start looking into the ASRs and see what my options are.

Thanks all! Really appreciate the help and information.

Dave

On 04/30/2012 08:50 AM, Aled Morris wrote:
> On 30 April 2012 16:40, Dave <dcostell-cisconsp at torzo.com 
> <mailto:dcostell-cisconsp at torzo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thank you all for the responses. I actually found the PDF shortly
>     after sending the e-mail. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. (Also a
>     part of me was hoping the PDF was wrong). So for an office router
>     that will do GigE + VPN + NAT anyone have any recommendations ? Is
>     it the ASR1k or bust now days ?
>
>
> You're only going to get near gigabit performance with hardware 
> forwarding, so ASR is your best bet.  Switch platforms with Layer 3 
> (like the Catalyst 3560-X) aren't going to support the features you 
> need in their forwarding ASICs so you'll get performance worse than 
> the ISR2 you've already tried.
>
> Aled
>


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