Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

[alex () pilosoft com]

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.
> >
> >