On Tue, 20 May 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Pekka Savola wrote: > > On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote: > > > I dont think the hashes are similar - its the effect into the > > > slow path. I was told by someone who tested this on a priicey CISCO > > > that they simply die unless capable of a feature called CEF. > > > > Yes, but pretty much nobody is using Cisco without CEF, except in the last > > mile, low-end devices. > > > > so not a GSR thing only feature. At the edges though, wouldnt it be > important to do more sexy things than just route based on a destination > address? Indeed. For example, policy-based routing (e.g. source address dependent routing) has been claimed to be in the CEF path now (previously it was in the slow path), but I certainly would "like" to be shown wrong. :-) By low-end edge devices I basically meant all DSL, ISDN, cablemodem etc. equipment. I don't know of "midrange" Cisco gear, but basically everything service providers use (at least 7xxx, 10xxx, and 12xxx series) do support CEF (or more complicated variations of it). -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
