Hi all,
The whole point of switching in this instance is I believe not wholly to
concentrate on other processes, but to routing packets that specifically
require routing. The roters main utilization is routing and as such you must
be efficient in what you select to route. If you can avoid routing a portion
of your traffic, do it. Switching takes up far less cpu time.
I hope that I am addressing your problem here.
Regards
Savvas
Taken form the book (Lammle's CIT p. 173):
"This is just another reason why switching is such a good practice.
Why
burden the RP with every packet if it's not necessary? By using switching
methods, the RP is free to use valuable CPU time on more important things
than doing route lookups for every packet that comes in the router."
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that what a routers supposed to do???
What
else does the RP have to do that is more important than ROUTING? I may be
overanalyzing this but it just seems that he's saying that the RP has
better
things to do like make coffee, rather than route.
Basically, could somebody give me a list of some other things the RP/CPU
has
to do other than route lookups...(I know there are access-lists and other
CPU
things here, I just would like a solid list to remember). Thanks team,
Mark Zabludovsky ~ CCNA, CCDA, 3/4-NP
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without any goals in life, I'm dead already."
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