[84629] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PBR needing to hit the cpu?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Sun Sep 18 15:34:13 2005
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:33:44 -0400
From: Adam Rothschild <asr+nanog@latency.net>
To: Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050918110037.A41449@mail.celicas.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 2005-09-18-13:28:22, Sean Figgins <sean@labrats.us> wrote:
> As far as I know, the hardware that you are likely using from the
> major company in the bay area is going to put all PBR traffic
> through the CPU.
[...]
It's all dependent upon platform, as was stated previously. A Cisco
Catalyst 6500 with Sup720 can definitely preform hardware-based PBR.
On the other hand, your run-of-the-mill 2600 series (or even a Sup2
w/MSFC2, if memory serves) cannot. :)
> Unfortunately, any more specific information of what vendors do
> would be a violation of the NDAs.
Please tell me this was meant tongue-in-cheek...
-a
