My experience was a bit different. I could have probably pushed 500Mbps with large packets, but my traffic is composed of a lot of small packets and micro-bursts. So in my case, I don't quantify it's performance in terms of bandwidth, but rather in terms of the volume of packets. I would see it die at or above 50k PPS forwarding through two interfaces. I now use line-rate devices (ASR1002's) in this role and the 7200/7300 series are on the test rack.
-b -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 6:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Real life performance of NPE G1/G2? On Tuesday 01 June 2010 08:53:30 pm Garry wrote: > I was wondering, what real life performance can one expect from an > NPE G1, considering mostly vanilla IP routing/forwarding? (no ACLs, > no VPNs, running CEF and MPLS VRFs, OSPF/iBGP for routing protocol, > and utilizing the integrated Gbit interfaces as well as 1-2 STM1 PAs > on the 7200 VXR chassis) I've seen an NPE-G1 configured with just IP addresses and 2 BGP peers (2 prefixes in each, none out), no ACL's, no VPN's, no QoS - basically, real vanilla. It was forwarding ~920Mbps in total (I know, weird, huh) broken down as 3x interfaces each doing a little over 300Mbps. As a real serving edge node, I haven't been able to get more than 500Mbps total out of it. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
