The bottleneck in the path (based on choosing the switch with the lowest
model number, on the principle that bigger model numbers means mroe
fastar1!1) is probably a Dell PowerConnect 3324 with one SX SFP, one LX SFP
and all the 100M ports pretty much idle. There are no increasing error
counters on transmit or receive on any of the devices in the path.
Is it reasonable to expect a Dell 3324 to be able to switch more than ~500M
of internet-sized packets?
Specs:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/pwcnt_33xx_specs.pdf
Packets: 6.5Mps
Capacity: 8.8Gps
smallest ethernet packet size: 64byte
(1GB * 1024*1024*1024/ 8) / 64 = 2097152 = 2Mps
Ups, one failure, we have full duplex:
(2GB * 1024*1024*1024/ 8) / 64 = 4194304 = 4Mps
also enough.
bye,
Ingo
