[c-nsp] GRE Throughput

[Joerg Mayer]

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34:08PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:21:28PM +0300, Samir Abidali wrote:
> > I wonder if someone can guide me for my search for that is a good Cisco device for GRE tunnel with a throughput of 100 mbps.
> 
> What *else* is it supposed to do?  1 Gig ports, 10 Gig ports, BGP, ...?
> 
> 100 mbps of GRE should be doable with a 2800/2900 series router, but
> it very much depends on what else you need...

It also depends very much on the number of packets/s - we managed to overload
a 2911 with about 1200 (Multicast) Packets/s worth less than 15 Mbit/s.

Ciao
 Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer at loplof.de>
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