On Thursday 2010-08-19 17:49, Grant Taylor wrote: >On 08/19/10 09:56, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>"Layer 3 switching" is usually a bullshit bingo word for routing. > >I like how you flop your opinion on the table Jan'. :-) >[...] >IMHO the real (and only) difference (as I (mis)understand it) between routing >and layer 3 switching is /how/ each accomplishes its task. Routing is >traditionally a software in CPU operation where as layer 3 switching is >hardware ASICs. Software in CPU is quit a bit slower than optimized hardware >ASICs. Routing as a concept remains hardware-agnostic. Otherwise you would have to tell me whether a bulk of RFC1149-conforming pigeons do "routing" or "L3-switching". Absurd comparison? Optimized ICs surely existed before people started calling routing l3-switching. > Skim the following article on Cisco's web site. (tl;dr) Right... directly from the propaganda ministry. I can see the flaw in that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
