North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Extreme BlackDiamond
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 [email protected] 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: [email protected]
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