Load balancing in routers

Mon Apr 8 19:03:41 UTC 2002

Thus spake "Mark Kent" <mark at noc.mainstreet.net>
>
> >> 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