Default switching Condition on Cisco Routers?

Feb 09, 2005 2 Replies

Simple question, Why if Cisco does not use CEF as the default switching in their routers?



They use as the default condition Fast Switching, that when a destination is not presented in the cache it fall back to the process-switching, which requires the IP Input process to give some attention to the packets waiting..... do not get it



CEF == Cisco Express Forwarding owned/written by Cisco and in Cisco hardware they use Fastswithing.... :S


Regards .


CEF became the default switching mode as of Cisco IOS Release 12.0.

that might be platform specific. i'm looking at a few 12.2 routers and they don't have ip cef enabled by default.

ymmv,

-chris

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