Hi.
I've seen a press release with the following headlines:
FOUNDRY NETWORKS DELIVERS NEW LAYER 3 GIGABIT ETHERNET CORE SWITCHING
SOLUTIONS FOR ENTERPRISE AND METRO SERVICE PROVIDER NETWORKS
New BigIron Gigabit Ethernet Modules and IronWare Software Release 7.2 with
Leading Price, Performance, Port Density, Redundancy, Optical Media
Flexibility, Security, High-Availability and Layer 3 Features
The PR is at http://www.foundrynet.com/pr2_26_01.html ; I'm trying to decode
the marketese into technical specs, and remembered the supposed upcoming of
new ASICs and changes to the packet forwarding mechanism.
1) How does this work at the "life of the day of a packet" view ?
"Performance Optimization: IronWare 7.2 provides a new option that
significantly optimizes forwarding in environments where the Layer 3 switch
uses default route to forward traffic for many of the destination networks."
2) Does this new module uses the new ASIC with the CIDR route processing
instead of today's host-based route caching ?
Rubens Kuhl Jr.
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