That's all still accurate (the Cisco terms and the theory) and can be found
in the latest edition of the BSCN course book. I just read it myself, and
know I've read it somewhere else (either in a Lammle or different Cisco
Press book)
Tim
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> I'm sure that somebody else will give a much more complete
> answer, but in a
> nutshell...
> Don't forget that there is more than one component to 'routing'. The
> 'routing process' (I'm using Cisco terms out of my rather old CIT notes
> here, which in my opinion are thoroughly confusing in this context)
> identifies the best path to a destination. This is what OSPF, EIGRP, etc
> etc do. The routing process builds the routing table.
> The switching process (we're still talking about routers here) moves
> traffic from an input interface to an output interface. It uses the
> routing table to work out which interface is the output interface.
>
> It is the switching process (i.e. moving packets, based on information in
> the routing table) that is offloaded to the SP. The RP still does the
> routing process (i.e. working out where to move the packets - building the
> routing table).
>
> JMcL
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