Thank you all, understood.
________________________________ From: Oliver Boehmer (oboehmer) <[email protected]> To: Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]>; john travolta <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2012 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [c-nsp] SIP 601 trhoughput > > >> Let us say that one 10 GE is connected to your ISP and the other 10 GE >> is connected to your back bone, GSR 12406 has a distributed forwarding >> architecture, so technically forwarding traffic between the two 10 GEs >> should not pass through the backplane, that is why I expect to have a >>10 >> Gbps throuput between outside and inside, but not sure :) > >The lookups are done on the linecards (this is what is distributed), but >the packet still has to traverse the fabric as far as I remember. There >is >no connection on the linecard to shortcut the fabric for intra-linecard >forwarding. That is true, there is no local switching on this platform oli _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
