On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would not use the 2824 as a router for anything serious, and >>"bandwidth reasons" makes it sound serious. > > Do you know what it takes to route even at gig speeds?
To the best of my knowledge, simply sending or receiving full frames at gig speeds is enough to stress most PCs, let alone forwarding them. The bottleneck is usually bus bandwidth or interrupt load. While I don't know, I would expect the routing on the 2800 to be done on the management CPU, not the switch ASIC, so you're talking about a PowerPC running at 266 MHz, with very little bandwidth to the network. But if you disagree, find an old PC, install Linux and a gigabit NIC, and do the router-on-a-stick configuration. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
