[63990] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason LeBlanc)
Mon Oct 13 18:09:54 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:00:09 -0400
From: Jason LeBlanc <jml@packetpimp.org>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310132308380.6300-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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