At 08:55 PM 2/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> > be wrong or does the 2514 not have enough horsepower?
>>
>> The test is invalid, unfortunately.
>>
>> You could dig out some 20MHz i386, to compare it to 25xx,
>> and Linux still wins. 25xx cannot forward between 10Mbit ethernets,
>> it was not designed to make this. It is good as serial line switch.
>> [ Essentially, 2514 shipped with 2 ethernet ports is cheating
>> of customers. ]
>>
>> Your Pentium boxes can be compared only to 7200 on 100Mbit interfaces.
>> And Cisco will win in this case, if you do not use fastrouting
>> drivers with Linux.
>>
>> Alexey Kuznetsov
>
>I think everyone may be missing the point. The 2514 data is in no means a
>comparison. The 2514 was designed for communications between ethernet and
>WAN links and for that it is a very good solution. Including the data the
>way I did may have been misleading. Assuming the data posted by Jason is
>correct a pentium will beat a 7000 series router in PPS without fast
>switching on the Linux box or the Cisco. The 7200 can pass 10k packets
>and the 400Mhz Pentium can pass 70000 packets and at what cost savings.
We have a customer who has peaked at 110k pps on dual T3s on a 600Mhz
Pentium. It happens to be FreeBSD but I suspect that a linux number would
be similar. A 7200 is a brain-dead box also...turn on some shaping and it
cant handle a full T3.
dennis
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