How much should I expect to pay for a license capable of 1Gbps and a full routing table? Ballpark.
Josh On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Pshem Kowalczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > We've just started to evaluate the CSR1000V as a traffic-carrying router. > So far we've pushed about 2.2Gb/s through it with no problems. When it > comes to PPS - we're doing about 450k. The way the load shapes seems to > indicate that the box should be able to handle about 5Gb/s using the APPX > licence. Currently we run it on ESX and implemented all the Cisco suggested > tweaking (in order to get better performance out of it), that roughly > doubled the performance over the default settings. The devices are > MPLS-enabled and integrated into our core and do only packet forwarding > (between IP and MPLS). > We didn't try VM-FEX just yet (that's suppose to significantly increase the > PPS). The physical infrastructure they run on - Cisco UCS, B200M3 blade. > > kind regards > Pshem > > > On Wed, 6 May 2015 at 00:58 Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/May/15 14:52, Phil Mayers wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yes. I can't remember where, but I have the impression either the CSR > > > or vMX had oddly high forwarding latency, even accounting for the fact > > > it's "just software". > > > > Right - I can't recall whether it was on c-nsp or NANOG, but I think the > > issue was that someone was saying that using CSR1000v as an IP SLA probe > > had some internal forwarding latency issues, compared to a classic > > software-based router like a 2800, 3800 or 7200. > > > > I can't speak to how true this is. Our CSR1000v's are RR-only, and do > > not forward any traffic. Handling of exception traffic has been great > > with no issues so far, which would imply - at least for me, anyway - > > that it should be fine as an IP SLA probe since the box terminates that > > type of traffic, it does not transit it. > > > > Not sure whether the issue could be related to hardware, choice of > > hypervisor, e.t.c. > > > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
