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RE: Extreme BlackDiamond
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:10:32 +0200 (CEST)
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 sthaug () nethelp no wrote:
I don't understand how you can differentiate between a router and an L3 switch. In my view "L3 switch" is a marketing term. All high end boxes do hardware based IP forwarding, whether their ancestry is from the L2 or the L3 side.
To me something that uses hardware assist, setup by the cpu per destination, is an L3 Switch. Something that does equal route lookups per packet all the time is a router. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
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