Greetings. I know this is going to sound pretty, well, lame. But...
I currently have a couple of routers (a 7204/NPE-G1 and a 3845) front-ending my WAN connections, which are all metro Ethernet, mostly gig ports which are policed at some CIR, or 100Mbit. The routers are big, expensive, and really don't do much - oh, someday I would like to do some QoS...someday. So, there is this pile of 3560Gs in the corner. I've had less-than-impressive experiences with them as server-farm access switches, which is why they are there. However, I'm thinking that for handling a handful (4-6) of Gig-Es/100Ms which are mostly not running at capacity, as long as I distribute the ports out amongst the port ASICs (so each line has the full 2Mbit TX buffer of the port ASIC to itself), and as long as I don't do something stupid like put all 4 ports of a 4-port etherchannel in ports 1-4, they ought to be fine. The switches don't need to do much - pass the traffic, run EIGRP, a little light QoS. Our route table is tiny, relatively. Am I going to regret this? Conversely, how much can I really expect out of an NPE-G1? _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/