[c-nsp] Control-Plane CEF-exception subinterface

Saku Ytti saku+cisco-nsp at ytti.fi
Mon Sep 18 12:28:58 EDT 2006


On (2006-09-18 19:12 +0300), Saku Ytti wrote:
 
> I'm not 100% sure what is being asked here, but if dCEF is disabled in
> 7600/LC, you're not process switching, you're still CEF switching but in
> software in MSFC. And indeed, frames that are punted for MSFC will be evaluted

Just to be precise when you have eg. DFC3B and you exceed it's memory
limit. Of course you don't need dCEF at all if you run with CFC's.
And 'external overload signalling' would help in those situation.

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  ++ytti


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