Re: OT: easy question about performance

From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 21:50:31 GMT-3


At 7:38 PM +0100 12/12/02, Luis Miguel Gil wrote:
>when cisco or another vendor say: "Performance: 15 kpps", how big is he
>packet ? It is a TCP packect ? It is an UDP packet ? Is a layer 4, layer 3,
>layer 2 packet ????

Vendors often cite whatever performance parameters make them look
best. For basic forwarding performance, see RFC 2544, for a
description, at least, of what makes a good benchmark.
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