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From: vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Recommended maximum number of serial lines on a gateway
Message-ID: <31893@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 30 Jan 91 21:36:38 GMT
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Does anyone have any good estimates for what the maximum number of serial
lines, both T-1 and 56KB, a single CSC-3 AGS or MGS system (with one Ethernet)
can be expected to handle? At present, we limit our routers to 12 56KB ports
(on 3 SCI's) or 4 T-1 ports (on 2 MCI's) and don't believe we are suffering any
bottlenecks. If we assume that we want to allow each T-1 the potential to run
at full-speed, we're probably limited to 6 ports (6x1.5MB = 9MB) by the speed
of the Ethernet - is this considered excessive? In the case of 56KB ports, I
expect that we're more limited by physical space for appliques and cable
routing than anything else - is that also a reasonable assumption?

	Thanks,
	--Vince