I've been using the following for v6 traffic generation: http://www.grid.unina.it/software/ITG/download.php
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:52:49 -0600 > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 fit on a > Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM? > > Good to know in advance that the 2600 doesn't have a lot of horsepower for > this kind of work. > > What's a good IPv6-based speed test site I can to test against? Maybe I'll > have to resort to iperf, if it's IPv6 ready. > > Frank > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gert Doering [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:30 PM > To: Frank Bulk - iName.com > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 fit on a > Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM? > > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:57:42PM -0600, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote: > > Does the entire BGP routing table for IPv6 (almost 2500 entries) fit on a > > Cisco 2600 with 64 MB of DRAM running 12.3(26)? > > This is a bit tight. On my good old 4700M, the "BGP router" process, > which is carrying all of IPv6, needs 6.5 Mbyte of RAM. 64 Mb total, 17 Mb > free. > > *But*: "12.3 IP Plus" IOS for 2600 will likely eat much more RAM to start > with, so it might already be tight. > > > I am planning to use this > > box for an IPv6-in-IPv4 tunneling appliance, but not sure if it can hold > the > > whole table. > > ... and that will be a bigger problem. The 2600 is *slow*, so chances > are you won't be able to tunnel enough IPv6 through it to even satisfy > a single 16M ADSL link... and you won't be happy with "proof-of-existance- > but quite slow" IPv6. > > gert > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany > [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _________________________________________________________________ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
