> Assuming that the CEF entry had already been made and that there wasn't > going to be any incurred overhead from processing switching the first > packet.
that's the whole point of CEF. there is no "process switch the first packet"; think of CEF as being the table is ALWAYS prepopulated; if it isn't populated, the route doesn't exist. :) > but I would say that it is highly unlikely that > high-overhead transport mediums and ATM and POS were used for the test. actually, transport has little to do with it; SAR on ATM, bitstuffing on POS etc. are handling by the framer (hardware) not software. cheers, lincoln. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
