[c-nsp] ISR G2 "multicore"?

[Judah Scott]

Yeah the software forwarding idea just ends up crashing large boxes like the
7609.  If you suddenly enable a feature that causes software forwarding or
you run out of TCAM and software starts to make up for that, say goodbye to
either performance or your SUP/RSP.


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:45 AM, <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

> > > Some might not see that as necessarily a bad thing, provided
> > > the ASIC is robust enough to handle all of the user's
> > > required features in the hardware path (being the only path)
> > > :-).
> >
> > This is one of the things we like about vendor J - packets are either
> > forwarded in software or not at all. There is no fallback to software
> -------------> hardware, obviously
>
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no
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