Hi, On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:07:21PM +0100, Fernando García Fernández wrote: > > El 15/1/2015, a las 11:37, Gert Doering <[email protected]> escribió: > > > > I tend to make the distinction at "there's a general purpose CPU that > > handles data plane and control plane" vs. "the general purpose CPU does > > control plane, and dedicated 'magic stuff' handles packet forwarding" - > > which would make the 4451 "software" and the ASR1k "hardware?????? > > Interesting your distinction because Cisco says that the 4451: > "The product???s innovative hardware design splits the control and data > planes between two multi-core CPUs???
Indeed, that's where my definition would not trivially apply either way :-)
(And given how fast multipurpose CPUs have become, we see this in other
areas as well - like "SSL offloading PCI boards" that you could add to
a web server for decent HTTPS performance... most of that has just plain
disappeared with modern CPUs...)
gert
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