> No. While I was at my former employer, we took our edge > ACL into the Juniper POC lab, and verified that an M40 > stuffed full of OC48 linecards could sustain just over > 85% of line rate with our edge ACL applied before sustaining > packet loss; the POC lab engineers double checked and > verified that there was nothing wrong with the test, that > was simply the most the IPII processors could handle with > that particularly hairy ACL.
Was that in the limits of the FPC ? It seems it does, just checking out. Was this a test with smallest possible packets ? Do you remember aggregate pps being routed ? It seems you could hit some of the real IP2 pps limits with ACLs, which is definitively not 40 Mpps. In one test I saw it hitted top at 12.5 Mpps, but it may be due to hitting FPC limits. Other people tests showed something in the 20-25 Mpps range. Rubens