Almost everything ends up in the CPU.. except for some cards, such as VSA and the PA-MC-T3-EC, where some functionality is offload to the FPGA in those cards... check the doc on those cards for specifics...
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Nikolay Shopik <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/06/11 09:46, Sam Silvester wrote: >> >> 7201 is a software platform - no forwarding is ASIC-based (it doesn't >> have ASICs!). Everything ends up in the CPU. > > > Yeah I mean FPGA not ASIC. What is actual job of FPGA which is having > separate upgrades. > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/7200/configuration/feature_guides/fpd.html > > This document isn't clear enough about its purpose, only what it has > something to do with port adapters. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
