On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 21:37, Tony Wicks <t...@wicks.co.nz> wrote: > So many years since I have used an asr1000 but, honestly you have an esp40 in > a box with 10x10G interfaces? That’s a very underpowered processor for that > job. The ESP40 was designed for a box that would have 1G interfaces and > perhaps a couple of 10’s. The ASR1000 is a CPU based box, everything goes > back to the processor and remember cisco math means half duplex not full.
I'm not sure what a CPU based box means here. ASR1k isn't using a general purpose core like PQ3, INTC or AMD. Like CRS-1 and nPower, ASR1k has Cisco made forwarding logic using cores from tensilica (CPP10/popey I believe was 40 x Tensilica DI 570T, next iteration was 64 cores). -- ++ytti
