Extreme BlackDiamond

Mon Oct 13 21:10:32 UTC 2003

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 sthaug at 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.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se