At 06:47 PM 2/23/00 -0800, 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. Comparisons with 26xx and 36xx
>routers would be more interesting, as would tests of various 7[25]xx
>routers.
It can easily do T1, but its the ethernets that kill it (2 on a 2514) If
you have local ethernet traffic being routed you can kill the box at about
2Mb/s aggregate throughput. If all of the traffic is ethernet <--> T1 there
will be no problem.
DB
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