06-07-2013 07:18 AM - edited 03-07-2019 01:46 PM
We are running a Cisco 887VA router for our internet access but of course the port connected to the internal network only supports 100Mbit/s.
There are a few 100Mbit/s ports on the router; I was wondering whether it was possible to use more than one port to provide aggregation to get higher speed such as two ports providing 200Mbit/s? We are running Gigabit internal.
Any ideas on such functionality or what's required for this?
Any help, ideas, tools, tips, config are greatly appreciated.
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06-07-2013 08:41 AM
Not really. The router CPU is not powerful enough for high speeds.
If you need wire-rate inter-vlan routing, get a layer 3 switch.
06-07-2013 08:41 AM
Not really. The router CPU is not powerful enough for high speeds.
If you need wire-rate inter-vlan routing, get a layer 3 switch.
06-07-2013 09:09 AM
Thank you for your comment Paolo - you're right, we already come to the conclusion that the 887VA can't seem to push more than 90Mbit/s at 1500 bytes.
06-07-2013 02:43 PM
Thank you for the nice rating and good luck!
06-07-2013 08:57 AM
Even if you could do this what are you going to achieve? I am guessing that your WAN connection to the internet is not more than 100Mb so having 200Mb/sec between your router and switch is not going to make internet access any faster.
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