[c-nsp] Fabricpath and L3 on the same line card

[Tim Stevenson]

At 10:12 AM 3/21/2013  Thursday, Chris Evans announced:
>Okay great, that is what I thought.. Seems like a simple feature to miss.
>
>Do you know if there are any performance limitations with it?


F2/E can generally do L2 & L3 at equal rate.


>  Like could
>internal ports be burned for routing efforts?


Absolutely not.

Tim

>It seems that many companies
>have problems with the TRILL header and can't do SVI natively like we can
>today. How these chips can handle MPLS, GRE, and other headers with no
>issues and not TRILL is interesting to me.
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Lustgraaf, Paul J [ITNET] <
>grpjl at iastate.edu> wrote:
>
> > Well, I'm doing it, so I guess it can.
> >
> > And F2 modules must be in a VDC by themselves, so no M1 could possibly be
> > involved.
> >
> > Paul Lustgraaf                    grpjl at iastate.edu
> >  "Change is inevitable.  Progress is not."
> > Network Engineer, Iowa State University IT Services
> >                                515-294-0324
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> > cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Chris Evans
> > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:57 AM
> > To: cisco-nsp
> > Subject: [c-nsp] Fabricpath and L3 on the same line card
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if Cisco F2/F2e line modules can run Fabricpath and L3
> > (SVI's) on the same line module. Is it line rate as well or does it proxy
> > through an ASIC burning ports, etc. Is an M1 module required?
> >
> > Someone has told me it cannot, but I believe it can. Are there any
> > limitations with it?
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
Routing & Switching CCIE #5561
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