Symantec Ghost across VLANS routed by cisco router

Is the time difference you mentioned the difference between single-vlan multicasting and routed multicast traffic? Or did you mean the difference between unicast and routed multicast?

Ghost adjusts its multicast rate to the slowest system in the network (the Master Client). With multicasting enabled, Ghost may be reaching a very slow client on your net that you didn't see before. Even though you have gigabit ethernet ports, routing the multicast traffic will introduce some latency that wasn't present on a single VLAN.

even though the 2821 may have gigabit ports, it is unlikely that it has that much throughput capabilities (125MB per second). it probably has about 60 Mbps of forwarding capacity, so one asks why the gigabit interfaces to begin with - a marketing ploy by Cisco to make you think you're getting a big boy router!

Well you need a layer 3 switch like the 3750 to alleviate these problems... or ghost with> Is the time difference you mentioned the difference between single-vlan

where did you getthose specs on the 2821 router ?

We got one and actual throughput testing on our netowrk showed much higher than that.

I would like to see what the listed performance specs are supposed to be,

Thanks

Hmmm, by my reading of the table the 2821 does:-

(the clue is that these figures are all in the same row:-))

The document states that this assumes min size Ethernet packets (512 bits)

If the average packet size is larger then the Mbps throughput will be larger.

I have a 2811 here. Maybe I could give it a whirl. Probably not today though.

Opps, my eyes jumped lines when I was transcribing.