[c-nsp] Switching paths

Dave Temkin dave at ordinaryworld.com
Mon Feb 20 17:40:45 EST 2006


I was always under the impression that log-input caused traffic to be
punted, but not just "log"...  Wrong?


On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Gert Doering wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:32:04AM -0500, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> > At around the last release of 12.4T fastswitching will be entirely removed
> > and you will have CEF and process level switching and that's it.
> > Also there will be some improvements to help tell why some packets are
> > punted out of the CEF path.
>
> Cool.
>
> [..]
> > > * ACL's
> > > * ACL's with 'log' as one of the keywords, does this have an impact if the match
> > > is achieved before the log statement?
> >
> > Correct. Do NOT use the log keyword. Use netflow to match on dstif Null0 if
> > you need accounting.
>
> Looking forward to have this really working - right now, I see correctly
> switched packets show up in the netflow tables with "dstif null0"...
> (12.2(18)S and 12.3(something)).
>
> Do more recent netflow versions show things like "was dropped due to
> ACL number 12345"?  Or just "was dropped due to ACL"?
>
> gert
>


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