7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput

Mon Feb 10 17:24:44 UTC 2014

600Mb is going to be really pushing it. I doubt it will be able to handle that kind of throughput.

Even with G2 I would think you would be pushing it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Bressers [mailto:remco at signet.nl] 
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:56 AM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: 7206 VXR NPE-G1 throughput

On 02/10/2014 04:43 PM, 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.
> 
> 
> 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.

Full routing and ACL 100+ entries? I would ditch the 7200+NPE-G1 or upgrade to an NPE-G2..

Regards,

Remco Bressers
Signet B.V.