[94558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Dell PowerConnect 3324
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Jan 25 09:14:29 2007
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:53:36 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I'm looking at a somewhat convoluted switched gigE path between an
M7i and an ERX, both of which I am expecting to be able to fill a
gigabit ethernet interface, but in practice the throughput is maxing
out at around half a gig of internet-sized packets in each direction.
(This is nothing to do with Afilias; it's a friend's network.)
The bottleneck in the path (based on choosing the switch with the
lowest model number, on the principle that bigger model numbers means
mroe fastar1!1) is probably a Dell PowerConnect 3324 with one SX SFP,
one LX SFP and all the 100M ports pretty much idle. There are no
increasing error counters on transmit or receive on any of the
devices in the path.
Is it reasonable to expect a Dell 3324 to be able to switch more than
~500M of internet-sized packets?
