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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Load balancing in routers
Thus spake "Mark Kent" <[email protected]> > > >> another thing is you will see increased latency and jitter as your packets > >> individually queue for cpu process time > > Thanks, that statement is significantly different than: > > 1) That is very deadly > 2) If you want to crater your router, sure > > both referring to "no ip route-cache" > > I was just pushing for more moderate statements :-) We were assuming he was actually pushing traffic, not using the router for a doorstop. An NPE-200 should push around 200kpps (no features) using CEF; that drops to less than 15kpps with process switching. Lowering a router's performance by over 90% qualifies as "cratering" in my world. S
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