If you reduce the number of BGP routes to 12000 your 3550-12T will handle two GigE uplinks with no CPU impact. Just use the correct SDM template.
On Jan 19, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Hector Herrera wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking for a router that can: > > - handle load-balancing on two 100Mbps links with minimal cpu impact > - must have at least 4 ports, at least 2 of which should be GigE and > the other two must support FE or GigE > - BGP with 25,000 routes > > My budget is small (under $2,000) so I'm probably looking for EOL/EOS > products. > > I'm currently using a 3550-12t for the task, with the only drawback > that the cpu hits 99% load with a 5000 packets per sec./40Mbps > combined throughput on the load-balanced links. The two 100Mbps > uplinks never reach more than 50% utilization because the router can't > handle the load. > > I would like to be able to handle up to 80% utilization on the 100Mbps links. > > Thank you for your suggestions, > > Hector > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
