Mike,
Thanks for the response.
I have tried both inside and outside the same subnet (intra vs inter
VLAN) on the one switch. Did not see any difference that is why I assume I
am not stressing the equipment sufficiently to see the difference. Can you
recommend a scenerio that would stress the configuration that does require
anything more than a handfull of laptops (i.e. some software product), or
should I setup some X number of FTP stations to one server and retest?
Again, thanks, I have been able to see the benefit of channeling and
trunking and ..... but have been unsuccessful with the MLS.
Priscilla,
I found that the configuration of MLS was somewhat cumbersome (not
necessarily difficult) when using an RSM. I just followed the steps laid
out in the CCIE Lan Switching book (dare I say bible) by Clark&Hamilton page
483 , the switch side MLS is enabled by default and no other config is
necessary if your using an RSM in the switch. Although I did test the
various settings (dest, dest-sourc and so on).
Regards,
""Michael L. Williams"" wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, you'd be hard pressed to even stress the router CPU with a
> single FTP going from a 10/100 NIC....... Even 100Mbps won't push it....
> With that "low" throughput, you really wouldn't see a difference in
> speed....... Question: Are the 2 machines that the file is being
> transferred between on difference subnets? This would need to be true to
> test the router-vs-multilayer switch speeds anyway......
>
> "Luke" wrote in message
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> > I am testing MLS on a cat5500 and have not been able to demonstrate any
> > throughput improvement using FTP as a test application. The cat5500 has
> > SupIII (4.5.12), RSM (12.0.7T) with NFFCII and 3 24port 10/100 ethernet
> line
> > cards. I have 7 Vlans configured and the mls settings on both the RSM
and
> > SupIII. When FTP is run inter VLAN the throughput is same whether I
have
> > MLS enabled or not on the SupIII card. When MLS is enabled I have
> verified
> > functionality using the various show mls commands so I am sure its
working
> I
> > just don't see any throughput improvement. Is this a function of ftp
> client
> > and server performance (using laptops with 10/100 ethernet cards on NT)?
> > Should I use a different application or unix client / server to test
> > throughput?
> >
> > If someone has any information I would appreciate your experience.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ""Denton, Jason"" wrote in message
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> > > Can anyone tell me what the REAL difference is between a layer3 switch
> and
> > a
> > > router?
> > >
> > > Jason
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