In shopping for switches for edge locations and I've notice that none of the vendors, except for Mikrotik publish L3 routing benchmarks, and almost all the review sites only test L2 switch performance. Especially for edge locations, Inter-VLAN routing and static routes are the most important because (a) you necissarily want to buy a dedicated edge router just to handle a handful of routing rules; and (b) you don't want to send traffic up to the core only to have it come back down to the edge again.
If Rohit or anyone else who is reviewing a switch when the hardware comes in can benchmark L3 performance right after they do an L2 test, it would be an amazing metric to have. The Mikrotik benchmarks of 20/25 VLAN and IP routes is a good place to start, since that seems to be the standard amount that the Broadcom chips should offload.
In my current scenario for example, I'm trying to figure out if a lower end Dell, Netgear, Mikrotik, EdgeSwitch or TP-LInk SFP+ switch will be able to get the job done, or if we need to spring for a higher end switch like a Brocade, Arista, Dell, HP, etc.. (which at that point I have to ask the guys if they want to throw Sonic on there as well, which also increases the management overhead and skill required).
If Rohit or anyone else who is reviewing a switch when the hardware comes in can benchmark L3 performance right after they do an L2 test, it would be an amazing metric to have. The Mikrotik benchmarks of 20/25 VLAN and IP routes is a good place to start, since that seems to be the standard amount that the Broadcom chips should offload.
In my current scenario for example, I'm trying to figure out if a lower end Dell, Netgear, Mikrotik, EdgeSwitch or TP-LInk SFP+ switch will be able to get the job done, or if we need to spring for a higher end switch like a Brocade, Arista, Dell, HP, etc.. (which at that point I have to ask the guys if they want to throw Sonic on there as well, which also increases the management overhead and skill required).