[c-nsp] FEIP and dCEF

[Rodney Dunn]

It was but the CPU on the VIP isn't that
fast so as we moved more and more features
in the dCEF path the VIP CPU quickly becomes
the bottleneck.  It's just like any other
software based forwarding router.

Rodney

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 04:54:11PM -0600, Brian Feeny wrote:
> 
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Rodney Dunn wrote:
> >>
> >
> > If your rates are anything of any size you had better do a Vip4 or
> > Vip6 or you will overrun the CPU.
> >
> 
> Well, probably putting like 25Mbps on each link.  I will look at the  
> VIP4-50's.
> Was dCEF just not done back in the 2-40 days for 100M interfaces?
> 
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