> 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.
The 2824 routes on its backplane at wire speed until the route table fills, then it routes at/in software (slowly). > But if you disagree, find an old PC, install Linux and a gigabit >NIC, and do the router-on-a-stick configuration. I disagree, but I won't play with the old PC:) jlc ~ 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
