I just had to replace a 7206 becouse it couldn't handle 6 T-1 lines
cleanly (and we needed to go to 8)
David Lang
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Dennis wrote:
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:15:01 -0500
> From: Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Brian J. Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Performance Tests Cisco 2514 and Pentium 166/400
>
> 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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