RE: explaination

From: Michael Stout (michaelgstout@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 10 2006 - 00:32:25 ART


For routed packets:
The mac table is querried for the egress port of a packet. THis is the
switchng table/backplan switching engine
no egres port is found
an arp is initiated
No arp reply>
Routing engine routes the packet based on ip source and destinatin using
its routing table
The egress port is determined to be some port (gig 0/1)

The egress port is added to eh switching table.
all ramaining traffic from that flow is fast switched.
No routing is necessary.
I believe CEF works simurlarly.

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  From: chris <iannaconec@optonline.net>
  Reply-To: chris <iannaconec@optonline.net>
  To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
  Subject: explaination
  Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:15:23 -0400
  I need some help explaining a Layer 3 switch to a client with some
  technical background , not in networking
  client doesnt understand a 3550 can both act as a switch and route
  packets destined for the wan out a seperate interface.
  how do i explain this capability?

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