Dell PowerConnect 3324

Ingo Flaschberger if at xip.at
Thu Jan 25 14:38:49 UTC 2007


>> The bottleneck in the path (based on choosing the switch with the lowest 
>> model number, on the principle that bigger model numbers means mroe 
>> fastar1!1) is probably a Dell PowerConnect 3324 with one SX SFP, one LX SFP 
>> and all the 100M ports pretty much idle. There are no increasing error 
>> counters on transmit or receive on any of the devices in the path.
>> 
>> Is it reasonable to expect a Dell 3324 to be able to switch more than ~500M 
>> of internet-sized packets?
>
>
> Specs:
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/pwcnt_33xx_specs.pdf
>
> Packets: 6.5Mps
> Capacity: 8.8Gps
>
> smallest ethernet packet size: 64byte
> (1GB * 1024*1024*1024/ 8) / 64 = 2097152 = 2Mps

Ups, one failure, we have full duplex:
(2GB * 1024*1024*1024/ 8) / 64 = 4194304 = 4Mps

also enough.

bye,
 	Ingo



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