Re: Performance Tests Cisco 2514 and Pentium 166/400

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 23:40:19 EST


        Hello Scott,

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Scott Laird wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Brian J. Schrock wrote:
> > From my testing processor speed has little effect on packets per second.
> > The
> > biggest increase will be seen with the new i840 chipset using a 64 bit
> > wide
> > bus. If anyone can test this I would love to see the results. I did the
> > Cisco test twice because I couldn't believe it, does anyone know what
> > might
> > be wrong or does the 2514 not have enough horsepower?

> The 2514 is barely fast enough to keep up with a T1. It's ancient -- I
> think it uses a 68030 under the hood.
        There are some settings that can make the data going thru the
        router between the two ether interfaces to get -near- 60% of
        the 10Mbit bandwidth . I'll have to contact my associate who
        did all the hard testing & digging around to find that feature
        setting . And yes that beast is a 68030 . Can anybody spell
        Linux-Cisco port ??? ;-)

>Comparisons with 26xx and 36xx
> routers would be more interesting, as would tests of various 7[25]xx
> routers.
        God, not asking for much are we .
        How many of -us- have spare 2600's/3600/7200/7500 lying about ?
                Twys, JimL
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