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Re: Re: CISCO Layer 3 switch
From: Paul Robertson <proberts () patriot net>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:35:57 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jose Nazario wrote:
i think so. i had learned it was routing at wire speed (low latencies) that made a layer 3 switch not a router.
Interestingly, Cisco has referred to moving packets between interfaces on routers as "switching" for quite some time. Depending on what wire you have, wire speed isn't necessarily all that fast ;) Flow and Silicon switching both seem low latency to me, but sell on router products- maybe there needs to be a better definition if anyone's going to buy into the marketing? Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts () patriot net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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