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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 [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. > > > > > > >
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