13 Oct
2003
13 Oct
'03
5:10 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 sthaug@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. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se