On 2/10/14, 7:43 AM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: > We're still on the 12.4 train. I do use an ACL with less than 100 > entries which handle BCP38 and block a few bad actors and private IPs on > the Internet. I will be moving the BCP38 ACL closer to the hosts before > the upgrade so the ACL will be a bit shorter in the future. We won't be > doing any QOS or IPv6 on it but it does take a full BGP table. I just > need it to last another year or two out of it if possible. I believe > this platform goes End of Support in Spring 2016.
yeah so you'll probably make it on a pure pps basis. > > On 2/10/2014 10:30 AM, Remco Bressers wrote: >> On 02/10/2014 04:17 PM, Vlade Ristevski wrote: >>> We are looking to double the bandwidth on one of our circuits from >>> 300Mbps to 600Mbps. We currently use a Cisco 7206VXR with an NPE-G1 >>> card. These seem like very popular routers so I'm hoping a few >>> people on this list have them deployed. If you or a customer have >>> these deployed, how much bandwidth have you seen them handle? This >>> will be handling dorm traffic at a college so it's mostly download. >>> The 7206 handles our 300 Mbps circuit just fine, but we are moving it >>> to our 600Mbps circuit. At peak we've seen the following numbers for >>> that circuit: >>> >>> >>> 30 second input rate 559982000 bits/sec, 55809 packets/sec >>> 30 second output rate 55429000 bits/sec, 32598 packets/sec >>> 267756984712 packets input, 333325152556755 bytes, 0 no buffer >>> >>> This is the interface that connects to our provider. As you can see >>> its almost all download traffic. Our ASR1002 handles it without a >>> sweat but I'm a little skeptical of whether the 7206 will hold up. >> This depends on multiple variables. The 7200 is a single-CPU platform >> where CPU can go sky-high when using features like ACL's, QoS, IPv6 >> and you name it.. Also, changing from IOS 12.4 to 15 increased >> our CPU usage with another 10%+. Stick to the bare minimum of features >> you really need and you will be fine. >> >> Regards, >> >> Remco Bressers >> Signet B.V. >> >> >> >
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