Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

[Jason LeBlanc <jml () packetpimp org>]

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:
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> > 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.
> >    
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> 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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