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Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
From: alex () pilosoft com
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:17:03 -0400 (EDT)
Not to mention that apparently if you turn off route-caching completely, you will make a router out of any "l3 switch" (since all packet forwarding will equally slow) -alex On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jason LeBlanc wrote:
75xx/GSR, dCEF? 75xx/GSR are L3 switches then. ;) Not to add flame-bait, but.. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios121/121cgcr/switch_c/xcprt2/xcdcef.htm Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: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.
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