On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Dan Sweeney <[email protected]> wrote: > Again. this thread should move to PHNOG. > > Ahh but... > > Most of Cisco IOS is developed on VXR 7200 NG-1 and NG-2 platforms.. and > those are basically an intel boxes (software routers).. > > I run two 7200's doing some heavy duty lifting BGP wise and CPU utilization > averages less than 4% (Full feeds, metric buttload of community strings, > route-maps and some nifty pearl scripts). > > Even though the NG-1's and NG-2'a are dual and quad core boxes Cisco in their > benevolence has not implemented code for using any secondary cores.. Might as > well be a Pentium.
nope.. ng-1 is based on 700 MHz Broadcom BCM1250 processor... its a dual-core 64bit MIPS processor... http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps3931/product_data_sheet09186a00800c6bd6_ps341_Products_Data_Sheet.html ng-2 is based on 1.67-GHz Motorola Freescale 7448 processor... its a e600 PowerPC core processor.. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps341/product_data_sheet0900aecd8047177b.html of course any router hardware has its own software.. but i was talking here using a pc based router versus a real router with a dedicated hardware (like ng-1 and ng2 as your example)... i was thinking as hosting provider... you should start a minimum of 1gbps port on every layer2 and layer3 switches... 100mbps is not enough for demanding *broadband* clients... with that.. you need a good dedicated hardware with higher PPS of routing and forwarding speed... fooler. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
