[94559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dell PowerConnect 3324
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ingo Flaschberger)
Thu Jan 25 09:38:09 2007
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:37:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AA14E308-B5B6-4595-848D-924507A70A2B@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hi,
> 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?
Specs:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/pwcnt_33xx_specs.pdf
Packets: 6.5Mps
Capacity: 8.8Gps
smallest ethernet packet size: 64byte
(1GB * 1024*1024*1024/ 8) / 64 = 2097152 = 2Mps
So, it should ne enough vor wirespeed.
bye,
Ingo
