Optimize a router in order to run faster !!!

[Johnthom]

Hi everybody,

Please tell me the ways to optimize a router to make it run faster. Or tell me documents about this issue or where in the Internet I can get these documents.

Any helps would be highly appreciated.

John Thom

 

[DanielBowen]

Routers are usually slowed down by anything policy based, such as QoS or access lists. If these are not necessary then remove them. The reason a router is slower than a switch is because it has to read more of the packet before it can forward it, plus it has to do routing table lookups. So by reducing the size of the routing table, amount of access-lists (and their size) and any other policy based functions will speed up your router.

On the other hand you could always upgrade and implement MLS

 

[Johnthom]

Thanks very much for your explanation. Could you tell me some document about this issue or Internet links to such document ?
Any help would be appriciated.
John Thom

 

[jornk]

http://www.cisco.com