And here is a great doc TAC wrote up on single flow TCP performance which should answer all your questions:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-12668 Sincerely, David. Jeff Bacon wrote: >> I recall it being two 3Gbps etherchannels, so I'd always assumed no >> single flow could exceed 3Gbps. The PoXXX interfaces don't have >> explicit gigabit members - any chance you know where to find some >> documentation showing the single-gigabit/flow limit? >> > > > from the 4.1 config doc, page 2-8: > > The connection between the FWSM and the switch is a 6-GB 802.1Q trunking > EtherChannel. This > EtherChannel is automatically created when you install the FWSM. On the > FWSM side, two NPs > connect to three Gigabit Ethernet interfaces each, and these interfaces > comprise the EtherChannel. The > switch distributes traffic to the interfaces in the EtherChannel > according to a distribution algorithm based on session information; load > sharing is not performed on a per-packet basis, but rather on a flow > basis. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
