11 Apr
2001
11 Apr
'01
4:15 a.m.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 alex@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
Alex
Rafi