[63982] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Mon Oct 13 17:30:13 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:10:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <41020.1066072260@verdi.nethelp.no>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
