PPP Perfomance of C7206VXR (G2)

[mschamba]

Hi,

how many ppp session can be negotiated per second by a C7206VXR G2 router ?

The router is connected with e 1 GE connection to the backbone and is running IOS

c7200p-adventerprisek9-mz.124-24.T4

One ospf process, one IPSec tunnel, one l2tp tunnel and about 4000 ppp sessions inside the l2tp

radius forwarding activated

Kinde regards

Michael

[paolo bevilacqua]

4000 session was in the tested scenarios at Cisco, many years ago already with slower CPUs.

Anyway what matter most is the amount of traffic handled, not the number of sessions.

So you will have to adopt a "deploy and monitor" approach rather than expecting to have canned answers.

[mschamba]

Hi Paolo,

when asking my router is get the following answer:

BLNDBPEIPSEC1#sh vtemplate 2

...

Maximum request duration: 24 msec

Average request duration: 5 msec

Last request duration: 4 msec

Maximum processing duration: 24 msec

Average processing duration: 5 msec

Last processing duration: 4 msec

For my opinion, this means the router is able to process about 250 ppp session per second.

Is this a realistic scenario ?

[paolo bevilacqua]

I think it is but as mentioned above, don't just assume, and be ready to add more resources as needed.