[nsp] Cisco problem

[Siva Valliappan]

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:47:47AM -0700, Steve Francis wrote:
> > > That's news to me.  Any cco reference?
> > >
> > > > Cisco does not recommend CEF on serial interfaces, you can
> > > > globally enable CEF, then manually disable CEF for the serial
> > > > interfaces.
>

i am not aware of this recommendation.  we do not support CEF with
certain WAN encaps such as SMDS.  we also did not support CEF with
certain encaps at first, e.g. MLPPP.  but in any current code,
all WAN encaps except for SMDS (and maybe X25) should be supported.
so it is recommended you use CEF with your WAN links.  if you find a
document that says otherwise, please send it to me, and i will try to
get it corrected.

cheers
.siva

 >
> > Doesn't make any sense to me either.   What good is an advanced
> > switching method if you don't use it on *all* interfaces?
>
> Ack. I see no reason of not using CEF on (low-speed) serial interfaces,
> especially since CEF is a requirement for more advanced features like
> MPLS. And an MPLS-VPN PE device usually has low-speed customer-facing
> interfaces (incl. Dialer/ISDN).
>
> > Actually I'd love to see Cisco drop all other switching paths (fast,
> > optimum, distributed fast/optimum, etc.) to simplify the code...
>
> fast-switching is still there and will be there, works just fine on
> lower-end platforms. "ip route-cache optimum" has been gone since 12.0,
> "ip route-cache cbus" is only supported on the c7000, and netflow is no
> longer a switching path. So CEF/fast/process is all there is.
>
> 	oli
>
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