[125394] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router for Metro Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Wed Apr 14 06:12:01 2010
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:11:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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> All of those numbers are straight forwarding with nothing turned on
> and 64
> byte packets. That way you get a nice idea of what the CPU can do.
They're also, as ever, unidirectional, so you can immediately halve them if your question is "what size pipe can I connect this device to?"
As a VPN managed CE, with QoS, BGP, a little bit of IPSLA etc, I'm seeing a practical limit of around 70Mb/s bidirectional out of the 3845.
Regards,
Tim.
