On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Julio Arruda wrote: > Is the N7K is a hard-coded-can't-change forwarding glue (EARL8 at that) > platform, TCAM based, hence the 'switch' term ?
It uses the EARL8 ASIC, yes, and it's considered a layer-3 switch. However, the EARL8 does allow for considerably more flexibility than the previous ASICs (i.e., good NetFlow, good uRPF, not so many weird ACL-construction caveats, etc.), and the NX-OS software platform is much more easy a development platform to deal with than IOS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <[email protected]> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
