Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!boulder!recnews From: schoff@psi.com (Martin Lee Schoffstall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: cisco in general Message-ID: <9106202352.AA03255@psi.com> Date: 20 Jun 91 23:52:15 GMT Sender: news@colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 91 19:19:14 EDT." <9106182319.AA01920@lfkw2.bgm.link.com> Return-Path: David, The cheapest cisco in the world (the IGS) can keep a T1 full in routing mode. PSINet, most of the regional networks, and many enterprise networks are pushing LOTS of traffic very very "fast". Some of them even have on line numbers where you can see that yourself, over months if not years of traffic. Send me a private message if you want to see psi's SNMP stats for cisco's which are available via anonymous ftp. Marty ------- Hello all, I need some help and info. We have a large network with about 11-14 different nets. Our problem today is the fact that they are all bridged. We need a router! we have about 600+ nodes and the bridges, well they work but not that well - sometimes. Ohh, we have a whole bunch of protocols TCP/IP, DEC, XNS, NBP, Ethertalk and IPX. TCP/IP is what most of our traffic is on our nets. We have 99.99% picked CISCO (AGS+) as the router to go with but I keep hearing.... how SLOW it gets when you start to route the different protocols. Is there any truth in this ??????? I have talked to CISCO and other vendors about this, now I would like to hear what the "real" world has to say. We want to route the 11-14 nets and then in the future go with an FDDI backbone with a bunch of routers. thanx David Cappello Network Administrator CAE-Link Fligh Corp. u4b08@bgm.link.com