RE: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)

["Brantley Jones" <bjones () redundant net>]

If you were gonna put down the $$ for a 7206, I would look hard at a little 
Juniper M5 with a 4-port ethernet card.  40M pps and 5 Gbps ought to be all 
the throughput you can handle for less than $40K.  A 7206VXR's throughput 
is a fraction of that.

Brantley

At 07:26 PM 11/1/2000 -0500, Mike Rae wrote:

> Are we talking the support of FE interfaces, or support of FE throughputs ?
>
> The switch may indeed support FE ports, but performance of the router will
> vary with packet size, IOS featues etc. I would be very suspect of the 2621
> supporting even 1x10baseT FD at wirespeed ...
>
> Based upon my experience (limited I conceed) the 72xx is the minimum router
> to support the potential throughput of multiple FE ports ...
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> > Barton F. Bruce
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:33 PM
> > To: Mike Johnson; Larry Rosenman
> > Cc: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: Re: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
> >
> >
> >
> > You could always use a 2620 or 2621 with their internal 1 or 2 fast
> > ethernet ports and then use an external VLAN savvy switch to
> > get as many
> > more as you need.
> >
> > Use one switch port for the 802.1q vlan trunk, and set each
> > other switch
> > port to be in a seperate vlan. Create subinterfaces on the router for
> > each, and use the vlan number as the .<whatever> subinterface
> > number for
> > simplicity.
> >
> > Some reports say a 262x can actually hold 128 meg dram. If not, cisco
> > has again proven they don't learn, or that engineered obsolescence is
> > the arrogant thing to do.
> >
> > There is the 2650 or 2651 option that DOES support 128 meg,
> > but is sadly
> > overpriced with no expansion to speak of.
> >
> > If getting the 7206, realise that there is now a dual 10/100
> > option for
> > the I/O controller card as well as a gig-e/10meg dual port I/O card
> > option. It is less $ than the PA-GE card. The gig-e can do VLANS, too.
> > DON'T get the PA card with dual 100 meg as it isn't designed for full
> > speed.
> >
> > Also consider the 300 processor as obsolete now with the 400
> > at the same
> > price. I wonder why the 400 is less $ than the NSE-1, too.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Johnson" <mike.johnson () isunnetworks com>
> > To: "Larry Rosenman" <ler () lerctr org>
> > Cc: <nanog () merit edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 5:20 PM
> > Subject: Re: RADWare Linkproof? (or better ways to multihome)
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Larry Rosenman [ler () lerctr org] wrote:
> > >
> > > > For the record, I've got a customer taking 2 full BGP
> > tables with a
> > > > 3640 with 128Meg of RAM.
> > >
> > > Can anything less than a 7200 handle three (preferably four) fast
> > > ethernet interfaces?  That was my sole reason for going that route
> > > as it seems to be the smallest Cisco that will provide four fast-E
> > > connections (according to Cisco docs that I may have misread).
> > >
> > > > (not sure of cost...)
> > >
> > > Well, it's certainly cheaper than a 7206...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> > > --
> > > Mike Johnson
> > > Network Engineer / iSun Networks, Inc.
> > > Morrisville, NC
> > > All opinions are mine, not those of my employer
> > >
> > >
> >
> >