gigabit router (was Re: Getting a "portable" /19 or /20)

Rafi Sadowsky rafi-nanog at meron.openu.ac.il
Wed Apr 11 08:15:09 UTC 2001



On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 alex at yuriev.com wrote:

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> CEF should be called Customer Enrangement Feature. It is a very very very
> bad idea to have linecards be anything else than forwarders. They should not
> make any intelligent routing decisions. There should not be a tons of copies
> of routing table on line cards.  That is what creates problems.

 Without getting into whether dCEF(Distributed CEF) is good or bad -
CEF gives a performance boost even on a single CPU box -
Try any 7200 series Cisco as existence proof

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> Alex
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	Rafi
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