600Mb is going to be really pushing it. I doubt it will be able to handle that kind of throughput.
Even with G2 I would think you would be pushing it. -----Original Message----- From: Remco Bressers [mailto:re...@signet.nl] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:56 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput On 02/10/2014 04:43 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > We're still on the 12.4 train. I do use an ACL with less than 100 > entries which handle BCP38 and block a few bad actors and private IPs > on the Internet. I will be moving the BCP38 ACL closer to the hosts before > the upgrade so the ACL will be a bit shorter in the future. We won't be doing > any QOS or IPv6 on it but it does take a full BGP table. I just need it to > last another year or two out of it if possible. I believe this platform goes > End of Support in Spring 2016. > > > On 2/10/2014 10:30 AM, Remco Bressers wrote: >> On 02/10/2014 04:17 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: >>> We are looking to double the bandwidth on one of our circuits from >>> 300Mbps to 600Mbps. We currently use a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE-G1 card. >>> These seem like very popular routers so I'm hoping a few people on this >>> list have them deployed. If you or a customer have these deployed, how much >>> bandwidth have you seen them handle? This will be handling dorm traffic at >>> a college so it's mostly download. >>> The 7206 handles our 300 Mbps circuit just fine, but we are moving it to >>> our 600Mbps circuit. At peak we've seen the following numbers for that >>> circuit: >>> >>> >>> 30 second input rate 559982000 bits/sec, 55809 packets/sec >>> 30 second output rate 55429000 bits/sec, 32598 packets/sec >>> 267756984712 packets input, 333325152556755 bytes, 0 no buffer >>> >>> This is the interface that connects to our provider. As you can see its >>> almost all download traffic. Our ASR1002 handles it without a sweat but I'm >>> a little skeptical of whether the 7206 will hold up. >> This depends on multiple variables. The 7200 is a single-CPU platform >> where CPU can go sky-high when using features like ACL's, QoS, IPv6 and you >> name it.. Also, changing from IOS 12.4 to 15 increased our CPU usage with >> another 10%+. Stick to the bare minimum of features you really need and you >> will be fine. Full routing and ACL 100+ entries? I would ditch the 7200+NPE-G1 or upgrade to an NPE-G2.. Regards, Remco Bressers Signet B.V.
